Deciphering Your Feed Tag: Senior Horses
Shannon Pratt-Phillips, MSc, PhD
May 22, 2025
Learn what nutrients are in your senior horse’s feed and why his body needs them.
Learn what nutrients are in your senior horse’s feed and why his body needs them.
Does your old horse need additional vitamin supplementation in his later years? An equine nutritionist shares how to ensure your senior horse gets the nutrition he needs.
A nutritionist describes how you can protect your horse from this highly toxic antibiotic typically found in cattle feed.
Understanding how your growing foal’s digestive system works can help you recognize and avoid potential problems.
As benign as it might seem, this fresh forage can cause more harm than good. Here’s what to remember.
Do older horses that eat senior feeds have a higher risk of choke?
Will giving my horse peppermints offset the hard work we’re doing to help her lose weight?
The information on your youngster’s feed tag is designed to help you make important feeding decisions.
These feeds are designed to boost horses’ calorie intake and meet additional nutrient needs that increase with work.
Any good feeding program meets the nutrient needs for the animal, maintains a healthy digestive system, and offers feeds of the highest quality. Does your horse’s diet include the required nutrients?
An equine nutritionist explains how to ensure your horse gets an appropriate amount of salt.
Proper nutrition throughout the foal’s first year of can impact his musculoskeletal health and his future performance as an athlete. The growing foal passes through three important nutritional phases: nursing, creep feeding, and weaning.
How can I encourage my horse to drink?
Forage analysis and judicial use of concentrates and supplements can help you get the most bang for your buck
Do you have any information about what would happen if you were to feed a horse bread? I understand that bread
The horse’s metabolic processes provide the body with the fuels it needs to sustain itself.
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