Plant Structure, Pasture Sugars, and Safer Grazing Practices
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
July 20, 2026
Choose safer times of day and grasses for your horses’ turnout while safeguarding their feet from laminitis.
Choose safer times of day and grasses for your horses’ turnout while safeguarding their feet from laminitis.
Learn how to help your horse or pony shed his excess pounds safely.
Soaking hay can reduce sugars for metabolic horses but must be managed carefully in summer to avoid mold. An equine nutritionist shares advice.
A researcher describes the importance of low-NSC diets for horses with metabolic problems and gives 3 tips for helping metabolic picky eaters gain weight.
Hay soaking can help horses with equine metabolic syndrome, but owners should understand how it might affect the rest of the diet.
Here’s why equine metabolic syndrome can affect horses with a healthy body condition and how you can monitor and manage these animals.
Learn what, when, and how to feed horses with metabolic issues such as EMS, ID, and PPID.
Here’s when and how veterinarians use these medications for metabolic horses that don’t respond to other treatments.
Researchers have shown mulberry extract helps lower glucose and insulin spikes in horses.
Study: Essential oil blend might help metabolic horses manage insulin.
Find out which horses and ponies might be at higher risk of developing metabolic problems, such as PPID and EMS.
One expert shares the differences between EMS, PPID, and ID in this podcast clip.
Careful dietary management helps horses with EMS stay in work while reducing laminitis risk.
An equine nutritionist breaks down nutrition terms and acronyms, including NSC, WSC, and ESC. Understanding these concepts can help you manage horses with metabolic problems.
Experts share best practices for feeding and managing aging metabolic horses.
Here’s what you should know about this new class of drugs for horses with insulin dysregulation.
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