Christine Barakat
Content Manager at Equus Magazine
Host at Barn Stories
Managing Editor of that horse magazine you love. Tweets represent my own opinion, and possibly the opinion of the barn cats. I write about ponies.
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1 month ago |
equusmagazine.com | Christine Barakat
If your spring plans include a return to a more intensive riding routine, make sure your horse's hooves are ready. Hopefully, your horse was seen by a farrier regularly during the winter months. If not, make an appointment for as soon as possible and hold off on riding until then. Working a horse with long, chipped or out-of-balance feet can lead to soreness and injury, sidelining your horse for weeks or even months.
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1 month ago |
equusmagazine.com | Christine Barakat
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1 month ago |
equusmagazine.com | Christine Barakat
In the spring of 2020, a previously healthy Quarter Horse foal in Oregon rapidly grew weak and uncoordinated a few weeks after birth. But all tests for known neurologic diseases came back negative. Now, research conducted at the University of California, Davis, has yielded a diagnosis: a newly identified hereditary condition called Equine Juvenile Spinocerebellar Ataxia (EJSCA). Although the UC Davis team initially focused on the Oregon foal, the scope of their inquiry quickly broadened.
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1 month ago |
equusmagazine.com | Christine Barakat
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1 month ago |
equusmagazine.com | Christine Barakat
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It’s only the most thoughtful, considerate ponies who trot away from you in the field for 10 minutes to show you how sound they are.
Young friend: “Wow. It’s colder than I thought today.” Me: “I’ve got an extra jacket in the back of my car. Put that on.” YF, zipping up jacket: “Ooh. I look like a 1970s Barn Mom.” Me: “Give me back my jacket.”