How to Exercise Your Older Horse - Caring for Your Older Horse - Part 1 - Ask a Farrinarian

Aggie Vet and Farrier Services, LLC (Brian Eitelman, DVM, CJF, and Emma Davie, DVM) provides mobile equine veterinarian and farrier services as well as mobile livestock veterinary services. Our primary service areas are Parker, Elizabeth, Castle Rock, Sedalia, Larkspur, Franktown, Cherry Hills Village, University Hills and Greenwood Village. To learn more, please visit us at www.vetandfarrier.com In Part One of this multi-part series designed to give you a comprehensive and adaptable plan for how to care for your older horse, Dr. Brian goes over the unique and changing needs of older horses and how to help them live their best life. In this episode, Dr. Eitelman talks about what makes a horse an "older" horse as well as key shifts in mindset about their needs. He then spends the rest of the episode talking about one of the biggest areas of care - how to properly exercise and condition your older horse whether they are still a performance athlete or retired pasture pet.