Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this board.

Share suggestions and tips you have regarding purchasing, leasing or selling a horse. Tell others how to avoid making a very expensive mistake when buying a horse; Share your experiences (both the nightmares and successes). Wisdom of prepurchase exams, what breeds to buy.

Chat about air quality (esp. during the wildfires), dentistry, deworming, medications, vaccinations, working with a vet, wound management, etc.

More serious than it appears at first. How to avoid and treat?

Help others suffering the loss of a beloved horse by sharing how you said goodby to a horse that died. Use this space to post a memorial to your horse. Discuss how to decide on euthanasia, and whether to agree on necropsy for answers. Thoughts about equine slaughter.

Post your experiences with the California wildfires, Katrina\\\'s floods, or mid-state snow and ice storms. How prepared were you? What worked? What would you do differently?

Helping to avoid breeding mistakes? Fewer foals needing to be put down?

Share tips on proper grooming, what tools to use on what part of the horse, how to care for the tack, what physical/medical problems to look for when grooming, grooming as a bonding technique, etc.

Your opinions on a ban in the USA - is it humane? Or is it comdeming old, lame, and unwanted horses to a worse fate in Mexico?

Post your ideas about selecting the right feed, how to determine if horse has a feed deficiency, nutritional needs of performance horse vs. pasture horse, plants and foods to avoid, value of salt blocks and suppliments, etc.

Post your experiences and questions about how to determine if your horse is lame, particular diseases to watch for, types of treatment, role of farrier and vet, prevention.

Add upcoming events, training challenges, tips, techniques and caring for your barrel horse.

Share your experiences, training, upcoming events, tips, techniques and caring for your cutting horse.

Discuss techniques, problems, successes, tack to use, etc.

Post your header and heeler experiences with other ropers. Clubs to affiliate with. How to improve your teamwork with your horse and partner, etc.

Chat about training your horse to perform a slide stop, caring preventatively for reiners, events, why you love it, etc.

Please share your experiences if you and your horse have gone swimming. Where did you go? Problems encountered? Tips for coaxing horse into the water.

Post your experiences camping with your horse.

This is the place to talk about the problems you are encountering with your horse.