Food for Thought: Are Feeding Practices Hurting Your Horse?
Heather Smith Thomas
August 2, 2019
Are your feeding practices doing more harm than good? Experts share four ways to improve your horse’s digestive health.
Are your feeding practices doing more harm than good? Experts share four ways to improve your horse’s digestive health.
An SAA test can identify illness in horses, and it can also ensure they’re healthy enough for other procedures, such as surgery. Here’s a look into how some vets use SAA in their practices.
Researchers found providing handfuls of forage to horses within hours after colic surgery improved gut healing.
Read about research into increasing the time horses spend eating (a good thing) without feeding them too much (a bad thing), along with more take-homes from the 2019 Equine Science Society Symposium.
Surgeon Dr. Anthony Blikslager shares his perspective on preventing horse colic.
Journalist Pat Raia has written about horse health and welfare issues for years, but she learned it’s a whole different ballgame when your own horse is the patient. Here’s what she experienced when her horse colicked recently.
When riding your horse in the woods or the wilderness, things can go wrong–and usually when least expected. Here are some possible predicaments you might face while out on the trail.
Researchers found that firocoxib and flunixin meglumine provided similar levels of pain control after colic surgery, but firocoxib resulted in reduced evidence of endotoxemia at 48 hours post-surgery.
Measuring the biomarker creatine kinase in abdominal fluid can help distinguish horses with ischemic (lacking blood flow) intestine due to a strangulating lesion—and, thus, require surgery—from those without.
Veterinarians and horse owners alike consider colic the most important equine health care problem in need of more answers.
A reader’s first-cutting hay brought in right from the field feels a bit damp. Our nutritionist explains why she should be cautious and how to tell if the forage is safe to feed her horses.
Dr. Regina Turner shares the results of studies on antimicrobial options for metritis, treating blocked oviducts, estrus lengths and pregnancy rates, colic surgery in broodmares, and more.
Does your horse fling food all over his stall during meal time? Our nutrition expert shares some tips you can try to keep your horse’s enthusiastic eating behaviors from wasting feed.
Horses need access to fresh and unfrozen water during the winter months. Here’s what to remember.
When it comes to feeding your horses, don’t make the same mistakes you’ve made in the past in the new year.
Listen to audio features on equine metabolic issues, colic, hoof abscesses, parasite control, navicular syndrome, and more.
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