Breaking Horses not Bones: Properly Raising Young Horses to Avoid Costly Injuries

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Determining the best age to begin training young horses is a heated debate within the equine industry. While many believe that horses should be skeletally mature when training begins, others believe it is unnecessary to wait 6 years until skeletal maturity. An online poll by an equine feed company indicated that 79 percent of their followers felt horses should begin training around the age of skeletal maturity (>4 years old) and 21 percent felt that horses should begin training before 2 years of age.

Keeping Your Livestock Show Animals Healthy: Proper Drug Use

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Proper pharmaceutical use in food animal species gives consumers confidence that the food they buy is wholesome and safe to eat. Proper pharmaceutical use is also the law! The drug use rules at the Mississippi State Fair and the Dixie National Junior Roundup (DNJR) are intended to ensure a safe food supply while upholding state and federal laws governing the use of products used in food animals. Regardless of use, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, and rabbits are considered food-producing animals.