Consider these nutritional factors when formulating your horse’s diet to avoid GI issues such as equine squamous gastric disease.
Dr. Alicia Long describes behavioral signs a horse with gastric ulcers might exhibit.
Dr. Alicia Long answers a listener’s question about why a horse might suffer from fecal water that’s worse in the fall.
What’s the best way to help soothe a horse’s stomach while he’s getting bute or other NSAIDs? Dr. Alicia Long of the University of Pennsylvania offers advice.
An upset digestive system can lead to bigger problems, ranging from gastric ulcers to colitis to colic. Sponsored by Purina Animal Nutrition.
Researcher: Veterinarians should “forget” two viruses once commonly blamed for equine liver disease.
Learn how gastric ulcers affect equine performance and the best ways for treating them in actively competing horses.
From growing a thick winter coat to producing heat as they digest forage, here’s how horses are inherently designed to cope with cold weather.
In this episode Dr. Emma Adam of the University of Kentucky describes the research that identified a novel strain of rotavirus in foal diarrhea cases this year.
An Italian researcher outlines the stresses high-performance horses face during transport and what horse owners and managers can do to help.
Here’s how to tell whether a broodmare is going into labor or experiencing colic-associated pain.
To understand how horses fared during standing flank laparotomy for colic, researchers reviewed records from 37 equids. Here’s what they found.
The large volumes of water pumped into the stomachs of horses with impaction colic can sometimes do more harm than good, according to Italian researchers.
You expect dusty hay to set off inflammation in asthmatic horses’ lungs. But did you know dusty hay and indoor housing can also affect their gut microbiota?
Abby Keegan, MS, PAS, an equine nutritionist for Cargill North America, will present considerations for designing appropriate diets for horses with equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) and how newly FDA-approved chromium might be beneficial. She’ll also share real-world example diets.
Traditionally, some riders withheld feed from their horses prior to training or competition. We now know better. Nutritionist Dr. Clair Thunes explains.
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