It’s just one month until The Mane Event Equine Education & Trade Fair opens at Red Deer’s Westerner Park for 21/2 days of clinics, presentations and a trade fair with something for anyone with even a passing interest in horses. This year’s event, which runs April 25 – 27, 2008, has expanded to accommodate the [...]

With the advent of the first equine clone, there was speculation by some as to whether the cloned animal would be reproductively sound. Researchers and scientist had no such doubts, and that has now been proven with the first pregnancies being announced in and by cloned horses.

Following the outbreak of Equine Viral arteritis (EVA) that significantly affected the Quarter Horse industry, some States are implementing and enforcing permit requirements with regard to shipped semen. One such State is Montana, which now requires a stallion owner to obtain a permit prior to shipment and use of semen shipped into that State.

A skunk moved into the basement of our old house. We discovered this a couple of days before we had to leave for the coast. Nobody realized there was a wee hole under the deck that led directly into the basement. One of our daughters (Daina) lives in that house and she wasn’t particularly impressed [...]

Some interesting information about the equine eye: Dennis Brooks, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVO, of the University of Florida veterinary school, led the panel at the in-depth session on ophthalmology at the 2007 AAEP convention in Orlando, Fla., held Dec. 1-5. He was excited to share many new ideas that have developed in the last six [...]

This interesting little video from National Geographic claims there are only about 3500 Shire horses left of the million or so that used to live in Britain and that the number of breeding mares being kept each year is less than the number that need replacing. I have no idea how many Shires there are [...]

Mary Stewart has asked us if we would ask our visitors if they would be interested in getting Star Choice TV dish service to provide the channel “Horse TV”. Apparently it’s a very well done channel, lots of training, show, breed shows, etc. both english & western. Mary called them and they said if there [...]