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Click here to download a print version of this infographic. Text-only version of “Joint Armor™: What’s Inside the Jar” Joint...

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Managing Your Horse’s Bugs

Bugs? What bugs? Horses are hindgut fermenters. In other words, the hindgut portion of your horse’s digestive tract contains millions...

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The Scoop on Electrolytes and Hydration

What are electrolytes? Imagine you are riding your horse on a hot summer day. If you do more than walk,...

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Put the Bloom Back in Your Horse’s Coat

Does your horse struggle with dull, flaky hair coat? Are his mane and tail dry and brittle? The quality of...

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Horses are the biggest athlete on earth.

They have 700 different skeletal muscles. In fact, 60% of their body weight is muscle. During exercise, muscle metabolism produces...

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How You Can Help Reduce Antibiotic Use

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Putting Effort Into Relaxation

This is post 15 of 15 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Joe and Penny Most, equine clinicians and...

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No scoop, now what?

You just received your first bucket of a new supplement and you can’t wait to start feeding it. You open...

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Stay positive

This is post 14 of 15 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Reese Koffler Stanfield, USDF gold medalist, FEI-certified...

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The Importance of Hydration

Interesting fact: Water makes up about 65% of a mature horse’s body weight. For a 15.2-hand, 1,000-pound horse, that amounts...

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How to fill your hay net the easy way.

This is post 13 of 15 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Lisa Barry, FEI 5* Rider and Trainer...

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Is this the beginning of a beautiful partnership?

This is post 9 of 9 in the series “"Kick On" - By Lisa Barry” As some of you know,...

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Clarifying Carbohydrates Part III

In Clarifying Carbohydrates Part I, we reviewed simple carbohydrates and in Clarifying Carbohydtrates Part II we looked at rapidly fermentable carbohydrates. This Nutritional Minute describes slowly fermentable carbohydrates (fiber) and discusses the concerns associated with all carbohydrates in the equine diet.

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Clarifying Carbohydrates Part II

There are many types of carbohydrates in equine diets, including simple carbohydrates, rapidly fermentable carbohydrates, and complex, slowly fermentable carbohydrates. Your horse digests each type of carbohydrate differently. Some types of carbs are better for your horse than others. Click here for Clarifying Carbohydrates Part I for information on simple carbs. This time we will reviewing rapidly fermentable carbs.

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Clarifying Carbohydrates Part I

There are three different types of carbohydrates utilized by horses: simple sugars and starches, rapidly fermentable carbohydrates, and structural carbohydrates. This part of our series will deal with simple sugars and starches.

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Think “E” for Excellent Nutrition

Vitamins are often clumped together as a single entity, and the contributions of individual ones are sometimes overlooked. In recent...

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15-minute sessions with your horse from Perfect Partners Equine

This is post 12 of 15 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Joe and Penny Most, equine clinicians and...

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Micro-Phase™: What’s Inside the Bucket

Text-only version of “Micro-Phase™: What’s Inside the Bucket” Vitamins and minerals play an important role in almost every system in...

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Take good care of your trailer and it will take good care of you.

This is post 11 of 15 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Reese Koffler Stanfield, USDF gold medalist, FEI-certified...

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The Trouble with Fructans

What is a fructan? Fructan is a type of sugar found in cool-season grasses. Instead of being digested in the...

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Like braiding sprays but hate the cost?

This is post 10 of 15 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Lisa Barry, FEI 5* Rider and Trainer...

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The ups and downs of training young horses

This is post 8 of 9 in the series “"Kick On" - By Lisa Barry” When riding young horses it’s...

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My horse won’t drink. What should I do?

This is post 9 of 15 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Joe and Penny Most, equine clinicians and...

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Vaccination Equi-Planner Healthcare Tool

Article re-posted with kind permission by Equine Guelph: http://equineguelph.ca/index.php Vaccines are an important part of your horse’s preventative health program. The...

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