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To walk, or not to walk? That is the question with colic.

Walking won’t cure colic and it isn’t always in your horse’s best interest (or yours) to walk him for hours and hours.

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Are you ready for spring?

Below is a list of spring horse care reminders you should consider while gearing up for the busy season ahead.

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Gas Colic

Gas colic is one of the more common types of colic and one of the least serious. It is caused...

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Horses With a Busy Lifestyle Are at High Risk for Digestive Upset

Horses with a busy lifestyle are at high risk for digestive upset. Limited grazing, larger grain meals, and frequent traveling...

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Travel Tips for Horses – Part 2: Nutritional Support While Traveling

Travel Tips for Horses- Part 2: Nutritional Support While Traveling

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Travel Tips for Horses – Part 1: Plan Ahead

Travel Tips for Horses- Part 1: Plan Ahead

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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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Prebiotics vs Probiotics: Understanding the Difference

Does it really matter? The terms probiotic and prebiotic are showing up more and more often on feed bags and...

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Preventing Fall and Winter Colic

Article re-posted with kind permission by Equine Guelph: http://equineguelph.ca/news/index.php?content=353 By Gayle Ecker, Director of Equine Guelph The fall is a...

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Increasing Your Horse’s Appetite

It can be hard to get a picky eater to consume enough calories to maintain optimal condition. Digestive aids, such...

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Supplement Tips That Help Keep Horses Healthy While Traveling

Your truck is gassed up and ready to go. You have gone over your trailer’s safety check list and it...

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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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Colonic Ulcers in Horses

Most of us know that horses can suffer from equine gastric ulcers syndrome (EGUS), a condition where horses develop ulcers...

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Fiber: The Key to Healthier Horses

In every aspect of our lives we strive for balance. As owners and caretakers of horses we should also make...

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Equine Gastric Ulcers—Do You Need To Worry?

A scoop of grain and two fluffy flakes of hay in the morning. A scoop of grain and two fluffy flakes...

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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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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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