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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 11 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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