Feeding horses can be a tricky business and all good horse owners are constantly updating their knowledge about equine nutrition. The best place to update your knowledge is through expert resources, rather than friends or the people who work at a produce. So here’s a few potential sources you can go to: Feeding Horses in Australia. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘equine’
31 Jan
Equine Emergency Rescue
Charlie’s Angels Horse Rescue recently purchased a copy of Equine Emergency Rescue for our library and for our foster carers’ and members’ education and development. This book is fantastic. It’s full of very practical information and how to rescue horses from ditches, mud, fast flowing water, fires, fallen horse floats and more. We cannot recommend it [...]
30 Oct
Charlie’s Angels Horse Rescue AGM 2011
Our charity’s AGM was held on Sunday 30 October 2011. All management positions were re-elected as the same as the previous two years, something the provides our organisation with a strong and stable foundation. Our Treasurer presented the yearly financial report and our auditing report, both of which were tabled for all present to view. [...]
16 Sep
Tara Laid to Rest
With many tears and grieving hearts, we laid our beautiful Angel, Tara, to rest this afternoon. Tara was with us for just one month, yet she won hearts everywhere she went, with vets, vet nurses, the Charlie’s Angels team and, especially, with her loving foster carers, Kathryn and Adam. Her quiet, gentle and willing nature [...]
29 May
What do you feed your horse?
Feeding horses. It’s a huge and fascinating area of study. And unfortunately, a lot of us could do it better. A high proportion of calls that we get from people wanting to surrender horses can be attributed to incorrect nutrition or management. If you’re anything like me, you might not have ever given a lot [...]
23 Feb
Neglected Parrot Mouth in Rescue Horse Tansy
Parrot mouth in horses is generally considered a genetic defect. A horse with a parrot mouth has their lower jaw set too far back. This results in the top and bottom teeth not wearing against each other properly and gross abnormalities are the result. If treated early enough by a qualified equine dental surgeon (i.e. a [...]
6 Jan
NCTM sponsors us for Certificate in Equine Nutrition
We want to say a very big thank you to the National College of Traditional Medicine (NCTM) for offering us a place in their Certificate in Equine Nutrition course. President, Joanne Schoenwald, is a past graduate of the Certificate in Equine Nutrition course and wrote to the CEO of NCTM, Sandi Rogers, to ask if [...]
16 Jun
Charlie’s Angels in Equine News
Read on to find out how you can get your copy… Our friends at Equine News have provided us with outstanding coverage in the Winter 2010 issue. We want to say a very big thank you to editors, Kerrie Seewitz and Jo Maisey, for their fantastic support of our organisation. They’ve included a three-quarter page [...]
3 Mar
Please Stop Breeding
Charlie’s Angels Horse Rescue does not support the breeding of horses in any way. One trip to a saleyard will show you just how many unwanted horses there are that go through the trauma of being shipped around for weeks at a time, starving, injured, ripped from their mothers, and ultimately killed. We are launching [...]
