Young Horse Development Part 3: 18-24 Months
Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM
September 1, 2011
The second year of a horse’s life brings significant changes not only in his development but also his use.
The second year of a horse’s life brings significant changes not only in his development but also his use.
Adjusting what a horse consumes can help prevent or squelch some equine ailments.
How you manage, feed, and care for your young horse can affect his future performance.
Gastric ulcers can affect horses of all breeds, ages, shapes, and sizes, including weanlings.
A nursing foal’s nutritional requirements will exceed his dam’s ability to supply nutrients a few months after birth, making creep feeding a good way to get the young horse off on the right hoof.
Carbohydrates are important energy sources for horses, and they are required for digestive health.
Tips on properly caring for the pregnant mare, newborn foal, and growing foal up to weaning with Dr. Nathan Slovis of the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute.
Proper nutrition, of course, is a critical factor in raising a healthy, sound foal–both for the broodmare before the foal is born as well as for the mare and foal throughout the foal’s development.
Weaning can be quite stressful for foals, mares, and their owners.
Breed-specific growth models help fine-tune feeding recommendations for young horses in the near future.
Proteins, composed of essential and nonessential amino acids, are important nutrients for horses.
Mare nutritional status is a critical component in foal health from conception through weaning.
Maternal nutrition and early foal nutrition could impact the development of the organs and systems that control energy metabolism later in life, suggest the authors of a recent research report. “In other species, it has been demonstrated
Start your foal out right to help avoid bone and tendon problems later in life.
Lawsonia intracellularis is known to be the causative agent of proliferative enteropathy (a spreading disease involving the intestines) in horses and is an important emerging
A three-year study by nutritionist Sarah Ralston, VMD, PhD, Dipl. ACVN, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, and her collaborators involved feeding draft cross weanlings and yearlings total mixed rations (TMRs) that contained processed forages,
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