Equine science has never been more technical. With the increase in various gadgets, what can you buy to make monitoring your horse easy as pie?
What are the best equine science gadgets out there?
1) Heart Rate Monitors
Heart rate monitors are an ideal kit to have when training your horse. They are vital in measuring and monitoring your horses fitness levels, especially when competing in disciplines such as endurance where heart rates need to be below a certain level to be able to continue with the competition.
The Seaver connects to your girth sleeve and measures your horse’s heart rate, recovery time and calories burned.
2) Trackers
Trackers are great for monitoring a variety of things, especially for .
The Estride monitors stride length which is great for gait analysis especially after an injury. calorie burn and jumping effort.
Arioneos Orscana measures your horse’s activity, sweat levels and temperature under their rug. No more guessing games!
Trackener Life can be used in all situations. Its best feature is that it tracks not only activity whilst the horse is unridden, but can also track your training sessions showing how much time you spent on each rein and in each gait.
Nightwatch is a fabulous tracker. It monitors your horse’s vital signs and behaviour, learns what is normal for them, and will alert you if there is any unusual behaviour noticed.
3) Massage pads
These are wonderful devices, designed to help warm up and cool down muscles before and after work, and also have a therapeutic effect (but of course nothing beats a Professional full equine massage from Emily at McTimoney Animal Therapy). But here are a few of the best.
Equilibreum. This has been developed through clinical trials and has been shown to promote back flexibility and relaxation in horses.
The Equissage has also undergone clinical trials and it has been found to significantly increase stride length.
With all these gadgets available you will have no problem in monitoring your horse 24/7 no matter where they are and what they are doing.
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