A Horse Cannot Live By Grass Alone

A Horse Cannot Live By Grass Alone

Is Your Horse Getting A Balanced Diet?   Where would we be without food?  Dead!  Every being on this beautiful blue planet needs food.  Humans have a wide variety from which to obtain their nutrients.  Horses on the other hand have evolved to mainly live off...
How do horses know whether it is Autumn or Spring?

How do horses know whether it is Autumn or Spring?

This blog isn’t about feed scoops and it isn’t about feeding horses but it is about horses and I think it’s timely and I hope you find it interesting. The horse’s coat is a useful indicator of its health.  Depending on the time of year and grooming, a healthy horse...
Coping With Winter Challenges?

Coping With Winter Challenges?

As winter approaches we are faced with a whole new set of challenges. Your horse will probably be stabled more and as well as maintaining their condition, they need to be entertained as well. Providing plenty of forage will encourage the horse’s natural feeding...
Small Business Saturday 2016

Small Business Saturday 2016

I don’t know if you have heard of Small Business Saturday.  Small Business Saturday exists to support, inspire and promote small businesses.  I am so excited that HŪF Design has been selected as 1 of the 100 small business that are being featured one for each day of...
Feeding Horses to Avoid Gastric Ulcers

Feeding Horses to Avoid Gastric Ulcers

I felt compelled to publish an article about ulcers after reading a piece in a magazine claiming that many performance horses have ulcers and their results remain good.  As untreated and unmanaged ulcers can be extremely painful and prevention is better than cure, we...
The SKŪP awarded 8/10

The SKŪP awarded 8/10

At the start of January, I had only the merest inkling of what the month ahead might hold, the prospect of my new website going live and a trip to the BETA International.  I had long forgotten about the set of four SKŪPs that I had sent to Horse and Hound in the...