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221 Rubicon Road Benton, La
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10740 N US Hwy 377 Stephenville, Tx 76401
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3900 CR 805 B Cleburne , TX 76301
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5515 Hwy 190, DeRidder, LA 70634
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202 E Bo Gibbs Dr Glen Rose , TX 76043
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482 County Road 080, Jasper, TX, United States, Texas 75951
Featured OROVILLE — KayLynn Booth’s favorite thing to do is ride horses. But for Booth, who suffers from a genetic condition that severely impacts her speech, fine motor skills and mental development, riding her “baby,” a large quarter-draft mare named “Jenna,” is more than play. It’s therapy. “She loves it and when she’s not riding she asks when she can go ride again,” said Loree Lampke, Booth’s older sister and in-home care provider. “She’s all smiles when she’s up there in the saddle,” Lampke said. Booth, 24, has been a Handi-Rider of Northern California student for 10 years.
In West Newbury, Mary Martin works passionately to find care and new homes for animals in need WEST NEWBURY – For most people it would be a nightmare job: long hours, hard physical labor, lots of paperwork, no budget, no staff, and no salary. But Mary Martin is not most people. “It’s a dream I’ve always had,’’ Martin, of Groveland, said of running New England Equine Rescues North in West Newbury, a nonprofit that assists horses and owners in need. Read more…
The first thing visitors notice about Assateague Island National Seashore is this: The 114 wild horses that inhabit the beachfront park along the Atlantic Ocean have full run of the place. Summer is peak season for some 2 million tourists who visit Maryland’s Assateague Island, famed for those wild horses. But increased interaction between man and beast is causing problems with the horses’ diets and behaviors…. Horses are typically herbivores. But thanks to visitors who pet and feed them, park volunteer Pam Stansell says they’ve developed a taste for things like junk food. “They like everything. They’ll
Two new outbreaks discovered Monday of a disease that is both common and highly contagious among horses led Roanoke Valley Horse Rescue to continue the voluntary quarantine of its facility in Hardy for at least another 30 days. The nonprofit first initiated the quarantine July 5 after five horses were determined to be suffering from “equine strangles” — a disease caused by a bacterial infection. Symptoms include nasal discharge, fever and enlarged lymph nodes that can become abscessed. During the quarantine, no horses leave the property, no new horses come in and no visitors are allowed. Read
State veterinary officials are warning horse owners to get their animals vaccinated after a deadly virus carried by mosquitoes killed two alpacas and sickened a horse in Dunn County in northwest Wisconsin. The virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, was confirmed on Tuesday after blood samples were taken from the diseased animals in early July. The virus can be transmitted by mosquitoes to horses, birds, humans, and other animals, such as alpacas. EEE is not transmitted between animals or from an animal to a human, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and
Mustang mares gathered from the White Mountain/Little Colorado ranges in Wyoming will receive a contraceptive and gathered stallions will return to the range intact under the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) revised plan for the contested gather
As Texas residents battle extreme drought conditions, horse owners are struggling to get their hands on enough hay to feed their animals. “The drought is quite widespread and covers nearly the entire state,” said Dennis H. Sigler, PhD. Read More
SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Breeders’ Cup did it first. Now, the American Graded Stakes Committee has approved a ban on Lasix, which many trainers view as a therapeutic drug, for all graded stakes for 2-year-olds beginning next year. The committee’s approval, announced Wednesday, has jump-started a serious debate on the pros and cons of the drug. Read more:
Livestock pastures on many Houston-area farms are turning to dirt, some covered in 1-inch cracks that would take a tropical storm to fill. At the same time, an auction house west of Houston reports an ever-increasing stampede of cattle being sold. Ranchers say they do not have the food and water to keep them alive. Yellowing, burned-out fields of corn, meanwhile, are so stunted that sometimes they don’t even produce a single ear. Texas farmers and ranchers report their livestock and crop prospects in most every sector are withering under the relentless heat and drought as experts