Posts Tagged ‘winter care’


Winter Weather Increases Risk of Colic in Horses: Part 2–Water

January 12, 2017
By Kristin Danley-Greiner for The Fence Post

Read part 1 of this series about winter colic in horses here. Dehydration is probably the biggest factor in winter colic. “We’ll see horses with an obstruction or impaction in their colon due to the colic. They have about 100 to 120 feet of intestine from one end to the other, so if they aren’t […]


Bring on the Light

January 5, 2016
Rachel Larsen

We’ve turned a corner on the Northern Range, the incremental increase in daylight reassuring us that Winter will indeed end.  Our horses, like us are taking advantage of the meager sunlight the tilt of the Earth’s axis has allowed.  Recently while checking water, I found the mares and young horses standing downwind from an old windbreak, […]