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Equiculture - responsible horse ownership

 

Responsible horse ownership begins with you becoming as knowledgeable as you can about horse care, behaviour, training, safety, welfare and management, including property and pasture management, and putting this knowledge into practice. It also includes learning about correct horse feeding and nutrition, hoof care, gear fitting, dental care and worming procedures. You can then apply that information to do the right thing for your horse (or horses) and for the environment. The Equiculture website is a resource and a learning tool for responsible horse people – people like you. Through this website you will learn about:

 

• good property care and pasture management - you should aim to become as  good a custodian of the land as you can be (see the horse property pages).

 

• safe practices for yourself, other people and any horses in your care - safe horsemanship is good horsemanship (see the horse safety pages).

 

• the good care and welfare of horses including the use of humane management systems - horses are entitled to the ‘five freedoms’ (see the horse care pages and the horse welfare pages).

 

• humane training methods that take the behaviour of the horse into consideration - you can never have enough knowledge (see the horse behaviour pages and the horse training pages).

 

You will also learn about other responsible horse ownership subjects such as the horse industry that you are a part of and how horses are an important part of the community.

 

Equiculture aims to promote responsible horse ownership through education and a commitment to ongoing learning. Remember to tell your friends about this site so that they and their horses can benefit.

 

We hope this site will become one of your favourite sites. It contains information that may not be readily available elsewhere. As well as featuring articles of topical interest these pages also provide relevant links and reading lists that will help you to add to your existing knowledge as well as further your education.

 

This website will be regularly updated as new information and research comes to light. We aim to produce and reproduce information that is both scientific and accessible.

 

The information on this website and any new additions will be as relevant to inexperienced as to experienced horse people. Read about us - Jane and Stuart Myers - and our experience and credentials - on the About us page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes on the new Website

 

Welcome readers new and old, just a few notes on the new website. What you are seeing now is not the finished product, it is a work in progress and we will be continually updating it with new information and articles. To be sure of keeping up to date with additions, you should subscribe to our mailing list if you have not already. You can now subscribe via this site. From now on you will receive a regular email alerting you to articles and new information that has been added to the website. Articles and information from old newsletters will be modified and added to the site also over time. You will also be notified about upcoming events (not only ours), both nationally and internationally, information about other websites and current affairs (e.g. Hendra virus updates).

 

We have started a travel blog as we travel the world looking at all things horse. You wouldn't want to miss out on this so make sure you subscribe to the mailing list. Over the next year or so our travels will enable us to expand our business, but also to visit and research the global equine community with a view to sharing this information with you and for the basis of new books. A rough outline of where we will be and when is on the contact us page.

 

We want this site to grow organically - that is responding to your needs and requests - so please contact us with ideas and even contributions, tell us what you want and we will try to meet your needs.

 

Now make yourself comfortable and enjoy....