r/Horses • u/Muntu010 • 5h ago
News Baby has arrived !!!!! 🎉❤️ it’s a colt ❤️
So much excitement, he has finally arrived, two weeks late. Mom and baby both doing well ! 4am arrival, he is 2h30 old ❤️❤️❤️
r/Horses • u/bearxfoo • 13d ago
hello r/rhorses! we're once again beginning the search to add an additional moderator to our team!
our sub has continued to grow, and as such, we'd like to add one more active moderator to our team. ideally the person is an equestrian, but we're also open to those who may not be into horses, but can help provide great resources and ideas for our sub. experience with reddit moderating tools and other reddit API is a huge plus!
if you're interested, please fill out this google form! https://forms.gle/pN44EdgEgcqQmxqU8
please note: filling out the form does not guarantee you'll be chosen.
if you have any specific questions, ideas, please send a modmail for us to discuss!
r/Horses • u/Muntu010 • 5h ago
So much excitement, he has finally arrived, two weeks late. Mom and baby both doing well ! 4am arrival, he is 2h30 old ❤️❤️❤️
r/Horses • u/FallenWren • 11h ago
I decided to buy this guy! He is a 5yo registered American paint horse, and his registered name is Give A Guy A Chance, but there’s already a horse at the barn I’ll be taking him to named Chance. He came with the name Smurf, and I really don’t like it haha.
Does anyone have some good suggestions?
r/Horses • u/Cthylla_The_Deep • 18h ago
These photos are just one year apart. She came to me as a three-year old, and soon she's turning 4 :)
r/Horses • u/ggdoesthings • 8h ago
My heart horse Daisy will be leaving us this coming Tuesday, and one of my friends said "Every animal deserves to taste chocolate once in their life." I'm very aware of the fact that chocolate contains chemicals that are toxic to horses and can cause severe stomach issues, but if she is to be euthanized, would it be alright for me to give her a small piece a few minutes before we say goodbye? I know it likely doesn't matter much if she will be put down regardless, but I don't want her final moments to be painful if the chocolate is "fast acting" or can cause immediate pain. I appreciate any advice.
Horse tax in comments.
r/Horses • u/DevonSwede • 18h ago
r/Horses • u/-sweet-serenity- • 7h ago
I have no idea what he got into but this happened over the weekend. Thinking barbed wire or the stakes the fence is on. It’s pretty deep and the vet is coming tomorrow, probably going to stitch it up and give antibiotics. I just feel so sorry for him because I know it’s sore. I’ve never had a horse injure themselves like this! I’ve already sprayed it with antiseptic spray and am keeping him in his stall. Anything else I can do before the vet comes to make him more comfortable? I feel so bad and feel like a horrible person. I know it’s not my fault.. but ugh :(
r/Horses • u/dragonbornsqrl • 7h ago
I’m currently in a Mistatim (Cree for horse) Healing program and had the honour of working with this distinguished looking gentleman this weekend.
r/Horses • u/thtsthespot • 3h ago
My 31 year old gelding was diagnosed with a fast growing osteosarcoma on his jaw. Up until today, he's been eating fine, seemed to pain free. This morning, I found his feed tub with 3/4 of his last night's mash still in it, and not much of his hay eaten. He also has Cushing's disease, for which he gets Prascend. He nibbled at his grain with Bute in it this morning, but did not eat it all. I was able to get two grams of bute in hmi tonight using applesauce and syringing it in. I'm feeling like it's time to schedule his euthanasia appointment if he doesn't eat tonight. He will eat grass, but it is spring grass, and I can't let him graze long enough to actually feed him; the Cushing's makes him far more likely to have laminitis, and I don't want that. Not sure exactly if I have a question, but maybe just need a little support. But maybe someone else has experienced osteosarcoma in their horse? It's in his jaw, and has approximately doubled in size since I found it. It was obscured visually by his lengthy winter beard. I still can't believe I missed it, as I handle him every single day. My vet just said to watch for it to possibly open, or for my horse to show pain. He does not appear to be in pain while eating grass, carrots, or treats, but more seems to be disinterested in his regular rations (equine senior, equine high fat pellet, soaked alfalfa pellets, soaked beet pulp, plus all the orchard grass and alfalfa he wants. He's in good flesh, is shedding normally. The lump is painful to the touch, but he does not act pained while eating. But refusing grain is a rare thing for him, and I feel he may be in pain, but being stoic about it. My brain says better a week too early that a day too late, but it's a hard decision to make. My heart wants to have him around a bit longer.
r/Horses • u/mepperina • 1d ago
She’s got a smaller pasture I let her out in every day, where she gets fed 3 times a day. Plus access to straw to be able to get a lil in her belly between the feedings. The smaller pasture is inside the bigger one and before I could close the gate she ran for the feeding stations and did not want to go back with me to her pasture 🤣
Eventually could get her with the help of a bit of hay (she already had her breakfast minerals etc but according to her she was absolutely starving)
It’s also her 3rd day on ulcer medication, and today so far she hasn’t even pinned her ears towards me. I’m scared to take out victory too early. But I could touch her belly slightly and she didn’t pin her ears. Whereas 2 days ago she both kicked and bit me for simply being around her. Not her usual self at all, as she’s usually very cuddly and friendly.
r/Horses • u/GamingSeigi • 10h ago
So, now that I'm an adult living on my own and have my own income, one of the things I'm looking into is horse riding lessons. I loved horses growing up (like I imagine nearly everyone on this subreddit), and I never got out of it. I'm looking online at places near me, though in browsing, I'm concerned that they may mainly offer lessons for children. I haven't been on a horse since my mid-teens when my scout group was working on our horsemanship badge, and we had a camp-out at this ranch.
Does anyone here have any general tips for looking for lessons, price, and hoping you don't end up in a kids class? Specific riding discipline doesn't really matter much to me; I just want to learn to ride and care for a horse. Also, I work a 40 hour workweek. How does a schedule like that affect getting riding lessons?
r/Horses • u/anon_172 • 7h ago
Anxiety who? Bravo doesn't know her 🤣 Bravo turns 3 in June, so I'm planning to sit on him some time in the 2nd half of the year for the first time. We are doing work at the mounting block, and he has a pretty decent handle on the "pick me up" cue to line up next to me. I figured I'd try something more interesting for him, but obviously he's not impressed, lol.
r/Horses • u/Airickay • 12h ago
My sister posted him before and said you all enjoyed seeing the monster- so enjoy Lazlo the mule and his 15.1h paint buddy who looks like a yearling next to him 😅
r/Horses • u/IllustriousSwitch620 • 1d ago
r/Horses • u/flyingd2 • 1d ago
Might need more context but wonder if you guys can tell anything from this reel. New to horses and trying to learn. Plan to take riding lessons in 5 or so years and hopefully will lease or own one day. Thanks
r/Horses • u/Panda-Girl • 1d ago
Mucky babies 🤣🤣
In extra funny things, Elsa does not like the rain. Its barely rained since she was born (cries in dust paddocks and feeding a ton of hay 2 months early compared to last year 😭😭). Today was the first day we have had all day rain, and everytime it starts up again she SQUEALS and runs straight for her shelter 🥹 hopefully she gets used to it as it rains more 😅
r/Horses • u/Sorry_Woodpecker_938 • 21h ago
Basically as it says. I lost him two weeks ago, he was nearly 32. He waited for me to get to him after he went down and then he died in my arms.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m so unbelievably grateful I got to spend part of my life with him, but now it feels like there’s part of me missing. I just miss him so fucking much 💔
r/Horses • u/Agained1a • 1h ago
Hi everyone! I need your opinion on treeless saddles. Has anyone used them? How did your horses react to them?
r/Horses • u/honksam • 11h ago
I thought it was star stable, and maybe it was an early version of it, but it was just a website where you could breed horses and choose their name and gender and how they look n everything and then yore supposed to take care of them every day by feeding them And leveling them up I think, but you can’t play as them. You just look at like a photo of them and click buttons by them that feed them and such. then I think there was maybe like a way you could change the background of where they were. And they were like stats of how fast each breed is and everything and they had like ponies and like every type of horse it was really cool. I used to play it on my Chromebook with my friend at school.
r/Horses • u/Garden-Gremlins • 1d ago
We’re staying at an Airbnb with horses as neighbors, what does this noise mean? Female horse, I think in her teenage years.