Fructan is a type of sugar found in cool-season grasses. When horses consume more fructan than they can digest in their foregut, it escapes into the hindgut where it can cause harmful imbalances.
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Beet pulp is a byproduct of the sugar beet industry. It consists of the pulp that remains after all the...
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A better understanding of how the horse’s digestion system works has revealed that balancing forage intake with concentrate intake is...
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What is laminitis? Laminitis occurs when the tissues that connect the coffin bone to the hoof wall, called the laminae,...
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Once known as a stable vice, cribbing is now considered by equine behaviorists as a stereotypical oral behavior. Cribbing behavior...
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For years, horsemen have believed that the surefire way to sidestep gastric ulcers is full-time grazing. However, that widely held...
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One human study showed that high doses of vitamin E might be risky; does this mean our horses are also...
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