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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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 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. Limited grazing, larger grain meals, and frequent traveling...
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Travel Tips for Horses- Part 2: Nutritional Support While Traveling
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Travel Tips for Horses- Part 1: Plan Ahead
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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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Does it really matter? The terms probiotic and prebiotic are showing up more and more often on feed bags and...
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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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It can be hard to get a picky eater to consume enough calories to maintain optimal condition. Digestive aids, such...
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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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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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Most of us know that horses can suffer from equine gastric ulcers syndrome (EGUS), a condition where horses develop ulcers...
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In every aspect of our lives we strive for balance. As owners and caretakers of horses we should also make...
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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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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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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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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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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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Preventing winter weight gain in easy keepers. Some horses gain weight when given a winter break from trail riding, training,...
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We have all heard that certain horses exposed to stressful conditions are at a higher risk of developing ulcers and...
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Packed with energy Fat is an effective energy source for horses. Pound for pound, fats provide 2.25 times more energy...
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Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) has become more and more prevalent in our equine community. It is...
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One of the most prevalent myths in the realm of horse nutrition today is that bran mashes are good for...
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