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.
Our equine nutritionist offers her secrets for solving chronic diarrhea in horses.
What could be the cause behind this young horse’s strange tongue lollying at feeding time? Dr. Sue McDonnell answers.
Are your feeding practices doing more harm than good? Experts share four ways to improve your horse’s digestive health.
Set your new horse up for success by following these tips to transition his diet and avoid gastric ulcers.
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.
A U.S. Equestrian Team veterinarian who has overseen the shipping of horses to six Olympic Games shares what steps to take before, during, and after a long-distance trailer ride.
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.
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