A lot has happened in the field of equine research in the last five years. Ginger Rich, PhD, of Rich Equine Nutritional Consulting in Eads, Tenn.; and Leslie Breuer, PhD, of LH Breuer and Associates, updated veterinarians and others who attended the Current Concepts in Equine Nutrition in-depth session at the 2002 American Association of Equine Practitioners’ (AAEP) Convention. Not all of the research done from 1998-2002 could be included in their presentation titled “Recent Developments in Equine Nutrition with Farm and Clinic Applications,” so Rich and Breuer chose what they felt were some of the most important research findings.

To organize their presentation, they divided it into these topics–water; energy; minerals; protein; vitamins; growth; broodmare nutrition; performance horse nutrition; nutritionally related diseases; new products, ingredients, and processing methods; and miscellaneous topics