Tips and Topics

This is post 20 of 20 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Reese Koffler Stanfield, USDF gold medalist, FEI-certified...

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Warm-up Strategy for Excitable Horses

This is post 19 of 20 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Lisa Barry, FEI 5* Rider and Trainer...

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Horse Vital Signs Part 3 – What Is My Horse’s Normal Respiration Rate?

This is post 3 of 3 in the series “Horse Vital Signs” Check your horses’ vital signs when they are...

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Horse Vital Signs Part 2 – What Is My Horse’s Normal Heart Rate?

This is post 2 of 3 in the series “Horse Vital Signs” Check your horses’ vital signs when they are...

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Horse Vital Signs Part 1 – What Is My Horse’s Normal Temperature?

This is post 1 of 3 in the series “Horse Vital Signs” Check your horses’ vital signs when they are...

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Is It Safe to Feed Garlic to Horses to Repel Insects?

Feeding garlic has long been touted to repel insects, but no scientific trials have been done to verify this claim....

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Travel With an Extra Set of Horse Shoes

This is post 18 of 20 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Joe and Penny Most, equine clinicians and...

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Thankful for Wonderful Friends

This is post 10 of 10 in the series “"Kick On" - By Lisa Barry” A few days ago, I...

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Be Sure to Smile and Breathe When You Ride.

This is post 17 of 20 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Reese Koffler Stanfield, USDF gold medalist, FEI-certified...

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Low-Sugar Treats for Your Horse

Looking for low-sugar treats for your horse? Try these fruits, but remember, all things in moderation and introduce new treats...

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Does your horse get anxious about jumping?

This is post 16 of 20 in the series “Pro Tips 2019” By Lisa Barry, FEI 5* Rider and Trainer...

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Joint Armor™: What’s Inside the Jar

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 10 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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