Equiculture - Informative Links

Informative links

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Dr Deb Bennets Equine Studies Institute - www.equinestudies.org - Dr Deb Bennets Equine Studies Institute is a colloquium of friends who share an attitude and approach to horsemanship. This web site contains much information of interest to horse owners, riders, trainers, and breeders. No matter what style you ride or what breed of horse you fancy, you'll be welcome on this site.

Jessica Jahiel - Horse sense - www.jessicajahiel.com/horse-sense.php and www.horse-sense.org - Jessica Jahiel's HORSE-SENSE Newsletter is a free, subscriber-supported Q&A email newsletter which deals with all aspects of horses, their management, riding, and training. Over 1450 articles are currently indexed and searchable in the newsletter archives on the HORSE-SENSE Newsletter Web site, making it one of the largest repositories of equestrian content on the Web.

Rural Industries Research and Development (RIRDC) (Australia) - Summarises local research on nutrition and general health relevant to Australian conditions (but much of the information is relevant to horse owners everywhere). You can buy books from the site but you can also download (for free) many publications and articles www.rirdc.gov.au

Natural Horse world - www.naturalhorseworld.com - Written by Cynthia Cooper of Tasmania, this site has lots of great information with more than 100 articles on various subjects including trailer loading, weaning, laminitis, saddle fit, hoof care and training.

Carol Layton - Balanced Equine - www.balancedequine.com.au - Carol Layton is an independent equine nutritionist who is passionate about the art and science of feeding horses. An excellent site for learning about feeding horses and what a mineral balanced diet really is.

The University of Guelph, Canada - www.equineguelph.ca - Founded in 2003, Equine Guelph is the horse owner’s Centre at the University of Guelph, supported and overseen by equine industry groups, dedicated to improving the health and well-being of horses.

The Equine Centre, Melbourne University - www.equinecentre.unimelb.edu.au - has lots of good information

Horse SA - www.horsesa.asn.au - have a great website full of all sorts of good information about horse keeping. Based in South Australia but most of the information is relevant to horse owners everywhere. In particular Horse SA have put together a Horse Owners Bushfire Buddy Dec 09 www.bushfire.horsesa.asn.au

Horses and travel

The Long Riders Guild - www.thelongridersguild.com - Part museum, book store, tack room and Guild Hall, this website contains the world's largest collection of equestrian travel information. If you are interested in travel and horses then this site is just brilliant. A visit inside will introduce you to the amazing men and women who have ridden horses in search of mounted adventure in every conceivable country and climate, ranging from Africa to Antarctica.

Have Horse ... Will Travel - www.havehorsewilltravel.com.au - An all Australian 'BYO Horse' directory of places to travel and holiday with your horse. Whether you want to holiday with your horse, or travel from 'A to B', this site provides comprehensive information of where you can stay. You will also find information on trails, events and horse transport/float hire around Australia. You can subscribe to the free newsletter so that you are kept up to date.

Informative links

The sites listed on this page are ones that we have selected because of their informative content (as opposed to being purely commercial). They are our personal favourites (however that does not mean that we necessarily endorse or even agree with everything that is written on them). There are still many more to be listed and we will add them as we get time. Check also the more info pages of each section of this site for specific links to subjects.

Each of these sites contains many hours of fascinating and informative reading so make sure you have a few hours to spare when you enter the site (and make sure the boss is not around!). If you have or know of any other great sites that either help horse people to better care for their horse/s or the land or to improve their relationship with their horse then please let us know and we may include them on this list. A reciprocal link is appreciated but not mandatory.

Laminitis and related sites

Katy Watts - Safer Grass - www.safergrass.org - The information gathered on this site is the result of the authors research to find out how to better manage her own chronically laminitic ponies. This includes replicated field trials on grass at her own research facility, literature searches of scientific journals, discussions with veterinary scientists, and collections of anecdotal evidence from people all around the world who are dealing with equine laminitis.

The site of the Laminitis Trust in the UK is - www.laminitis.org

www.farriervet.com go to laminitis page

www.johnthevet.com (laminitis section)

Equine Cushing's Disease and Equine Insulin Resistance - www.ecirhorse.com

The University of Queensland's laminitis site is - www.laminitisresearch.org

The ABR (Australian Brumby Research) Unit is attached to the Australian Equine Laminitis Research Unit and headed by world renowned equine foot researcher, Professor Chris Pollitt BVSc PhD and coordinated by his PhD student Brian Hampson - www.wildhorseresearch.com. You can subscribe to the free newsletter so that you can be kept up to date with their goings on. Lots of good scientific based information.

Equine Magazines

Hoofbeats magazine - www.hoofbeats.com.au - An Australian magazine which also has a great web site. Each edition an article is added to the free archive on the site. One of Australia oldest magazines it provides great information that is balanced and informative.

Horses and People - www.horsesandpeople.com.au - Horses and People Magazine is a high quality, full gloss, free monthly publication which has become the premier source for equestrian information in Queensland and Northern NSW over the past 15 years. There is an excellent archive of articles.

Horses for Life - www.horsesforlife.com - An excellent on-line magazine with lots of free articles. The articles are thought provoking and challenging, educational and welfare based.

Links to purely commercial sites may not be accepted for this page as this is an information resource page. Please contact us if you would like to advertise on our site.

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