BETA Summer of Safety #BSOS23 Shop Safety Equipment This is the third year of the highly successful campaign that was designed to help inspire, educate and encourage people to embrace safety in all areas of their equestrian life, to help keep themselves and their horses safer. This year, the Summer of Safety already has a huge amount of support behind it.The summer long campaign will include in person events, lives and online content from riders, manufacturers, equestrian bodies, BETA’s CMO Dr Diane Fisher, and more.Topics being covered range from yard safety tips, bio-security, hi-viz standards, feed room safety, body protectors,...

Rider Safety Wear What is the right safety wear for you? Whether you are planning to go eventing, go out hacking or are only just starting to ride, it is important to consider what safety wear you need. Here is a brief guide to rider safety wear. For more information, or if you would like a safety wear check, please do visit us in our shop.  Peaked Hat or Skull Cap? This choice may depend on what sort of riding you wish to do. A skull cap can be used for any riding discipline, but a hat with a fixed...

Changeable weather makes it very difficult to know which rug, if any, to put on your horse or pony. BETA (British Equestrian Trade Association) have created a useful guide to which weight of rug might be appropriate in different temperatures, depending on whether or not your horse is clipped and whether in the stable or the field. Every horse is different however, and some horses may need fewer rugs than their stable mates, depending on age, condition, level of work and feeding regime. Of course, there may be a limit to the number of rugs you want your horse to...

Kate Hore RNutr(Animal). Snr Nutritionist at NAF Horses have well developed cognitive skills with a good ability to learn, and to remember previous experiences. They are emotionally developed, such that research has shown they can recognise human emotion from the facial expression alone, and even remember that person’s earlier demeanour when they meet them again later in the day. All this means that in horses we have an animal that, when trained correctly, in a calm, repeatable, positive way, can learn to cope with almost anything. However what about the unexpected? Ultimately the horse is a flight animal, and if...

It is important that we do not overuse wormers as this will help horse worms to develop resistance, reducing their effectiveness. However, we all want our horses to be healthy. So what can we do? Targeted worming can help, alongside pasture management. This involves using worm egg counts to determine which horses need worming. This can reduce wormer use by about 80%. We partner with Westgate Labs to offer worm egg counts and have qualified advisers on hand to help you develop the right worming program. Worm Egg Counts are a good indication of the worm burden is a horse....