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Healthy horses in a quality field
22 March 2019

In 2017, the Soil Conservation Service of Icelandic and Horse Breeders Association of Iceland founded a land-harnessing project called Hagagæði, or “Field Quality”, so that horse farmers and others who keep horses can have it formally certified that ...

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Gully Gawk Tastes Mare Milk
12 December 2018

Gully Gawk is used to drinking the creamy froth off the top of buckets of cow's milk but now he can hardly find any buckets of cow's milk and is forced to venture outside to try to get some milk from the horses instead.

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The Complete Guide for Icelandic Horse Lovers
13 November 2018

Lex van Keulen and Vanda Oosterhuis have written the most comprehensive book about the Icelandic horse to be published in English.

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“Star ride” across Iceland
16 October 2018

Hermann spent most of the summer on horseback, riding across Iceland with 42 horses and a party of r...

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“The Horses’ Gift to Me”
26 September 2018

Horses of Iceland recently invited German photographer Christiane Slawik and her husband and assista...

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The “will-to-win” gene and other factors of pacing
14 September 2018

A breakthrough discovery concerning the genome of the Icelandic horse was made in 2012 when two Swed...

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Life at Landsmót - Highlights
10 August 2018

The National Icelandic Horse Competition, Landsmót, was held in Víðidalur during the first week of J...

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Hólar University’s four-legged teachers
02 July 2018

At the ancient education centre Hólar in Hjaltadalur, North Iceland, the first school was establishe...

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Hot about hooves: Farrier Zola Runsten talks horse shoeing
18 June 2018

Zola Runsten is a farrier – certified and approved by the Swedish Ministry of Agriculture – who spec...

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