Weaning Ways
Connie Lechleitner
September 4, 2022
Here’s how to help your weanling foal transition to adulthood as smoothly as possible.
Here’s how to help your weanling foal transition to adulthood as smoothly as possible.
Will a senior diet negatively affect a young horse? Two equine nutritionists agree it likely won’t.
Horses at different life stages have a variety of immunization requirements, but they’re not as complicated as they might seem.
Young horses in work have different nutritional needs than their adult counterparts.
Eliminate the feces of R.-equi-infected foals on the farm, which reduces the bacteria the earthworms consume.
Learn about preventive methods and surgical options for treating an umbilical infection.
Rescue volunteers along with the staff at Bend Equine Medical Center spring to action to save an abandoned Mustang foal in Oregon.
Signs and tests that can help you and your veterinarian quickly identify the various causes of foal diarrhea.
Disease control focuses on prevention through increased biosecurity protocols.
How diets high in starch can impact hindgut function and performance, potentially leading to problems with the ‘gut-brain axis.’
Learn about the delicate balance between two key minerals in horses’ diets.
Poor hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis development in premature and immature newborn foals might affect their stress responses.
The readily available modality can reveal more information so veterinarians can make a definitive diagnosis.
Neonatal maladjustment syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion that must be reached quickly to save the foal. Learn about commonsense approaches to nursing “dummy foals” back to health.
The three major macronutrients—carbohydrates, fats, and protein—make up the bulk of the equine diet and are the main nutrient sources necessary for all aspects of life.
Learn how proper nutrition can help improve horses’ musculoskeletal, immune, endocrine, and gastrointestinal health.
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