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Got a horse in your barn that can get out of anything you put on his head? You are not...

Building a Strong Immune System in Mares and Foals

Natural vitamin E supplementation of broodmares during late gestation and early lactation can give foals a leg up in building...

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Nutritional myth: When fed free-choice vitamins and minerals, horses will pick what they need.

Busted: Researchers learned that horses have some nutritional sense for salt, but not for other nutrients. Horses will seek out...

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Getting Ready for Horse Show Season

Spring weather means horse show season is right around the corner. Are you providing all the nutrients your horse needs...

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Spring Cleaning Checklist for Your Barn and Horse Farm

Spring is here. It’s time to get started on your spring cleaning plan. On cleaning day, be sure to: Turn out horses so they are not exposed to dust stirred up by cleaning. Open all windows and doors for ventilation.

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Spring Turnout Tips for Sugar-Sensitive Horses

For normal horses, the spring grass is a lovely change from hay, but for sugar-sensitive horses it is a dangerous time of year.

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Is Your Horse’s Diet Making Him Hot?

Can what you feed be making your horse a little crazy? The short answer is yes, it might be. Diets high in simple carbohydrates, like the sugars and starches found in some concentrates (those high in grain and molasses), can cause a horse to have hormone fluctuations that lead to anxiousness and excitability.

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Horses are the biggest athlete on earth.

They have 700 different skeletal muscles. In fact, 60% of a horse’s body weight is muscle. During exercise, muscle metabolism...

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Inexpensive vitamin E gel caps are not a good deal for horses owners

We all know that horse keeping is an expensive business. Each of us looks for ways to minimize our costs....

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Vitamin E and the Performance Horse – A Winning Combination

Vitamin E is essential for the performance horse Vitamin E, the major lipid-soluble antioxidant defense in cells, plays an important...

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Time for Your Horse to Put on Its Winter Coat

Does your horse resemble a fluffy stuffed animal this time of year? That fluffy winter coat serves a very important...

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Use Caution When Riding in Freezing Temperatures

When the temperatures drop below freezing, opt out of strenuous work and choose other activities for your four-legged partner. Research...

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Neigh-Lox® Advanced: What’s Inside the Bucket?

Neigh-Lox Advanced contains a proprietary blend of research-proven ingredients that work synergistically to maintain healthy equine GI tract tissues.

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Catch Weight Loss in Your Horses Before It Becomes a Problem

It is easy for horses to drop weight in the cold winter months and you may not notice it until...

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Hay for Easy Keepers

Q: I was told to feed my easy keeper mature, lower quality grass hay. Why, and how do I tell...

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When Disaster Strikes, Plan to be Prepared

Article re-posted with kind permission by Equine Guelph: http://equineguelph.ca/index.php Ice storms, blizzards, floods, or tornadoes – it seems that over the...

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At What Temperature Does Your Horse Start to Get Cold?

Horses will start feeling cold below certain critical temperatures. For a clipped horse, or one with a summer coat, the...

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How Do I Determine the Percent Protein in My Horse’s Total Diet? It Is so Confusing.

Customer Q&A Question: How do I determine the percent protein in my horse’s total diet? It is so confusing. Answer:...

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Winter Weight Gain

Some horses gain weight when given a winter break from trail riding, training, and/or showing. The extra weight can make...

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Senior Horses May Have Trouble Maintaining Weight

The capacity of the gastrointestinal tract to absorb nutrients becomes less efficient as horses age. Many older horses are unable...

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Choke in Horses – Causes and Solutions

Click to download chart. Horses choke when a mass of partially chewed feed becomes lodged in their esophagus. In an effort...

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Soaking hay before feeding is one way to lower the sugar levels, but it reduces more than sugar.

Soaking hay is one way to reduce the amount of sugar in the hay, but it should only be used...

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How to Feed Round Bales to Your Horses this Winter

There is often a stigma attached to feeding round bales to horses, but managed well they can be a safe and economical option. When baled and stored properly, round bales are no more prone to growing bacteria or mold than square bales. If you decide to feed round bales to your horses, be sure to purchase them from a reputable dealer who has cut and stored the hay properly. Click here to download infographic.

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