For Immediate Release

July 17, 2018 — BUCKEYE™ Nutrition presented its world-leading collaborative research on the care of senior horses at the Australasian Equine Science Society Symposium in June. Professor Pat Harris, head of the WALTHAM® Equine Studies Group, which underpins the science behind the BUCKEYE Nutrition brand, was one of the invited speakers at this biennial international event.

As the proportion of aged horses within the general equine population appears to be increasing in many countries, there is growing interest in determining the best ways to feed and manage them. Professor Harris’s presentation provided an overview of some of the more recent collaborative research that WALTHAM has conducted on the senior horse. This work is helping to improve nutrition-related knowledge to enhance the health and quality of life of senior horses.

 WALTHAM’s journey into the feeding and management of the senior horse started in earnest with a PhD program at Nottingham Trent University in the early 2000s into age-related changes in taste and feeding behavior in the stabled horse. Studies continued at Michigan State University looking at the effect of age on digestive function followed by the effect of diet on glucose and insulin dynamics