Creating the Right Diet for Your Horse
Debra Powell, PhD, PAS
March 30, 2024
Your horse’s nutritional requirements depend on his life stage and individual needs.
Your horse’s nutritional requirements depend on his life stage and individual needs.
Watch for these 10 emergencies in the hours after a mare foals. Learn more in this article from The Horse‘s Spring 2024 issue.
Have your veterinarian perform a fecal egg count on your horse before deworming to ensure your protocol is effective and reduce the incidence of parasite resistance.
Learn why this congenital malformation occurs in foals and how veterinarians, owners, and breeders can treat and prevent it.
Supporting your new foal’s gut microbiome from Day 1 can have a lasting impact on his lifelong health and immunity.
Vitamins and minerals comprise a small portion of the horse’s diet by weight, but their importance is enormous. Learn more about when supplementation might be needed.
Researchers continue to study internal parasites with a focus on preventing resistance to deworming drugs. Read more in this article from The Horse‘s 2023 Research Roundup issue.
Decipher fact vs. fiction when it comes to the complicated world of feeding horses.
Sometimes mares don’t produce enough milk to support their foals’ demands. Here’s what you can do to help.
An equine behavior expert offers advice on raising and training an orphan foal to reduce future unwanted behaviors.
New research might lead to a vaccine for this highly contagious disease.
A nutrition expert offers advice for ensuring free-fed horses don’t overeat hay.
Discover how a young horse with persistently puffy hocks but no lameness was diagnosed with and treated for a medial malleolus lesion in the Fall 2023 issue of The Horse.
Nutritional evaluations take the guesswork out of whether your horse is consuming a balanced diet.
Horses with certain health conditions should skip sweet treats. Find out if your horse is one.
Probiotics might help reestablish healthy balances in the horse’s gut microbiome without causing harm.
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