Equestrian illusions

Ethology, Featured

Stories and means for awareness of inconvenient realities MARCO PAGLIAI and ALBERTO ALESSI This book is addressed to those wishing to understand horses and are aware of the equestrian world’s distorted view oriented more and more towards human benefit and less and less towards the horse. It is a world in which everyone appears to…

Salts and Sweat

Featured, Horse Care, Stable Life, Uncategorized

The important role played by electrolytes On very hot and muggy days, horses must thermoregulate, i.e. maintain an adequate body temperature, which clashes with ambient temperatures that are often above 25 degrees even at night. If this temperature increases then horses find themselves outside their thermal comfort zone and their bodies must activate all those…