There is often a stigma attached to feeding round bales to horses, but managed well they can be a safe...
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As the winter season approaches, it is time to evaluate your horse’s body condition score. It is important to make...
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Mosquitoes are not just annoying; they pose a health risk for your horses. Mosquitoes spread several neurologic diseases: West Nile...
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Spring has sprung and it is time to evaluate how your horse made it through the winter and revise your...
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Horses that have demanding training or competition schedules, broodmares raising foals, and growing horses can expend a huge number of calories doing their jobs. These horses need energy and lots of it, but they need the kind of energy that won’t cause digestive upset or improper growth patterns.
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On average, 1 out of every 10 horses will suffer from a bout of colic each year. Managing your feeding program can help reduce colic in horses.
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Dehydration can be as much of a problem in winter as it is in the summer. Horses need to drink...
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Five tips to make sure your feed room and hayloft are ready for winter.
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Travel Tips for Horses- Part 3: How and When to Use Supplements
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Managing the easy keeper is anything but easy. The biggest challenge when feeding an easy keeper is meeting nutrient requirements without overfeeding calories.
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Fructan is a type of sugar found in cool-season grasses. When horses consume more fructan than they can digest in their foregut, it escapes into the hindgut where it can cause harmful imbalances.
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A horse’s hoof takes about a year to completely replace itself. One of the first signs of inadequate nutrition is a dry, dull hair coat and cracked hooves. When problems crop up it takes time to fix them. To ensure soundness and decrease your horse’s downtime, it is best to be proactive when it comes to hoof maintenance.
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Horses with a healthy GI tract digest their feed more effectively so they absorb additional nutrients. They are less likely to suffer from digestive imbalances resulting in colic, diarrhea and ulcers.
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Pound for pound, fats provide 2.25 times more energy than carbohydrates. Adding fat to the diet can increase the energy content of the diet without increasing meal size.
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Green grass is the greatest source of vitamin E. Supplementation with vitamin E is most crucial during the winter when horses are fed diets almost exclusively composed of preserved forages.
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