How Equiteca works
Equiteca is a reference library for horse and pony owners. Our job is to be the page you can trust when you are deciding what to buy, what it costs, or what is wrong. Here is how we do it, and how we do not.
Who writes this
Everything here is written and maintained by Equiteca Editorial. We do not invent a fake vet or a made-up expert to sign the pages, and we will never put a person's name on advice they did not give. When a page touches health or diagnosis, it says plainly that it is not veterinary advice and tells you when to call a vet. For anything your horse is actually going through, a professional who can see the animal in person beats any website, including this one.
Every number carries a source
If a page states a price, a height, a dose cadence, or a statistic, it links to where that figure comes from: a breed registry, a horse council, a veterinary association, a university extension service, or a published cost survey. We synthesize from several sources rather than paraphrasing one, and we do not cite other blogs. The citation list at the foot of each page is not decoration. It is the point.
How we compile price data
Prices are ranges, not quotes. We pull board, feed, farrier, vet, and lesson figures from published surveys and industry bodies, take mid-market values rather than the cheapest or the priciest, and note the region each figure applies to. The cost calculator uses the same numbers. Your barn, your region, and your horse will move them, so we present a planning baseline and say so.
Why we keep saying behavior might be pain
A lot of what gets called a bad habit is a horse in pain with no other way to tell you. Girthiness is a classic sign of ulcers. A horse falling on the forehand may have a sore back. So on every problem page we rank the causes honestly and flag the ones that are pain wearing a behavior label, because ruling those out first is both kinder and cheaper than training against them. This is the editorial line we will not soften.
How often we update
Each page carries a reviewed date. We revisit price figures and health guidance as sources update, and we would rather leave a claim out than source it secondhand. If you find something wrong or out of date, that is worth telling us.