Hay for Horse Health
Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM
October 4, 2019
Horses with conditions such as muscle or metabolic disease might have special hay needs to stay healthy.
Horses with conditions such as muscle or metabolic disease might have special hay needs to stay healthy.
Dr. Bryan Waldridge, who treats retired champion racehorses at Old Friends, shares specifics about the types of colic that are more common as horses age.
An equine critical care specialist shares advice for dealing with a colic while waiting for your vet.
Find out how to keep your middle-aged horse’s teeth, feet, joints, and more healthy.
A new study looks at age as a predisposing factor for post-operative nasogastric reflux and mortality.
More than four hours without feed is fasting for a horse and can lead to issues. The solution for evening feeding? Slow feeders extended nighttime “grazing” time by 95-105%, researchers observed.
Here’s how to react if your horse consumes feed designed for another animal.
Stress not only leads to stereotypical behaviors and high cortisol (stress hormone) levels but also disrupts the horse’s gastrointestinal (GI) system and microbiome.
Studies have shown a lunar influence on humans and animals, from fertility levels to hormone fluctuations to immune response. More research into its effect on equine colic, however, needs to be done to make a strong association.
A researcher investigated how long horses spent eating when offered varying amounts of soluble fiber. Her findings could help your horse avoid health and behavior issues, such as gastric ulcers and cribbing.
Up to 93% of performance horses suffer from gastric ulcers. Is yours one of them? Here’s how to manage the condition.
While some types of diarrhea in horses present little to worry about if watched carefully, others can be life-threatening. Read more about this condition’s causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
What do we actually know? Dr. Hoyt Cheramie covers anatomy, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management of horses with glandular gastric ulcers.
Tips include ensuring constant forage access, providing pasture turnout, and limiting concentrate intake, among others.
Equine glandular gastric disease has a distinct pathology, risk factors, diagnostics, and treatment approaches.
Here are some biosecurity practices you can put into place at the clinic and on the farm to prevent salmonellosis.
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