Post-Winter Weight Gain
Kristen M. Janicki, MS, PAS
March 9, 2015
Here’s how to feed your hard keeper once temperatures start rising.
Here’s how to feed your hard keeper once temperatures start rising.
Researchers recently evaluated how well the horse industry uses the available resources to improve feeding practices.
Researchers determined that healthy aged horses are able to digest various nutrients similarly to healthy adult horses.
Here’s what current research, or lack thereof, is telling us about common equine supplement ingredients.
Researchers say study results suggests vets could potentially use hops extract to mediate health conditions associated with carbohydrate overload.
Researchers found the muzzles reduced horses’ grass consumption by 30% but did not impact the animals’ forage choice.
A group of researchers went looking for the cause of Great Britain’s growing equine obesity problem. Here’s what they found.
The team found that, in the same time span, horses consumed more of the offered hay when fed on the ground (60%) versus in the hay grid feeder (48%).
Researchers are evaluating whether horses can choose to eat a specific nutrient-rich feed if their diet is deficient in that substance.
Maintaining a healthy weight and diet is just as important for our horses as it is for us.
Researchers studied whether horse farms use best management practices to reduce environmental contamination.
Pastured horses maintained their fitness level, plus had greater bone mineral content than other horses.
Blood levels of certain anti-inflammatory markers might indicate a horse is at increased risk of laminitis.
Low serum zinc levels were associated with an impaired immune function in yearlings and 2-year-olds.
Supplementation with a certain type of fatty acid appears to improve insulin sensitivity in IR horses.
Researchers showed that reduced time on pasture increases consumption rate and decreases fecal pH in horses.
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