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Tend Your Oldster
Horse and Rider
|December 2017
Have a senior horse in your herd? Here’s how to keep him in the best possible shape throughout his teen years and beyond.
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An older horse can be worth his weight in gold. Plus, you just plain love him. Here are important considerations for keeping your senior horse—that is, one 15 or older—happy and healthy.
Movement
Exercise keeps aging muscles strong and joints operative, plus promotes your horse’s overall mental and physical health. Full-time turnout (with appropriate pasture-mates that won’t haze or injure him) is ideal.
With under-saddle exercise, keep expectations realistic. After all, a 25-year-old horse is roughly comparable to a 75- to 100-year-old human, and while some 80-year-olds run marathons, many others are in wheelchairs.
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