Welcome to EC Magazine
ec magazine: the First Issue
Keep it simple.
Keep it short.
Call us - ec.
Eh-Cwuss Cuh-BALL-us = domestic horse
If you’re a horse person, I’m betting you’re
a busy person. Busy people do everything fast. We like shortcuts
and timesavers. We’re the folks who stand by the microwave
while looking impatiently at our watches.
We’re quick. We’re in a hurry.
We’re in such a rush, in fact, that we constantly assign nicknames to
words longer than a few syllables. Electronic mail is “e-mail,” Interstate
75 is “I-75,” the World Wide Web is simply “www,” and
Personal Data Assistants are “PDA’s.”
With scientific terms, we’re even more liberal. Yesterday, I mowed the
Paspalum notatum fuegge in my back pasture. Sound like a serious disease? Actually,
Paspalum notatum fuegge is common bahia grass.
And in case you were wondering, the title of the slick magazine you’re
holding right now, Equus Caballus, is the scientific name for domestic horse.
But you’re busy. So drop a few syllables.
Those equus caballuses you’re so fond of? Just call ’em horses.
And this magazine? Just call us ec. (Now exclusively on the www.
Equus Caballus, the magazine of the domestic horse, has been dedicated to the proper care and feeding of horses, ponies, donkeys and mules for over seven years. This site is a compilation of over 400 archived articles and new features about nutrition, health and equine management.