Unsound and Overweight Horses
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
August 21, 2024
Find out how you can keep your metabolically efficient horse healthy when he’s laid up with an injury or chronic illness.
Find out how you can keep your metabolically efficient horse healthy when he’s laid up with an injury or chronic illness.
Dr. Frank Andrews describes how you can reduce your horse’s risk of hindgut ulcers while helping him safely lose weight.
Discover what, when, and how to feed horses with metabolic issues such as EMS, ID, and PPID.
Read about the do’s and don’ts of feeding horses with 4 common health conditions, including gastric ulcers, metabolic disorders, and more.
Discover which horses and ponies have a higher genetic risk for EMS and how to manage them in the Spring 2024 issue of The Horse.
Dr. Howland Mansfield describes signs a horse is ready to retire from riding, ranging from mild work intolerance to lameness.
Obesity could cause increased damage to your horse’s joints. Here’s why.
Here are some tips for promoting nonworking horses’ optimal health (and preventing potential problems) with nutrition.
Discover how nutritionists took three horses from fat to fabulous.
Blood insulin levels can warn of increased risk of laminitis in obese horses and ponies and spur owners to mitigate it.
Grazing muzzles can promote equine weight loss, but it is important to introduce them correctly so horses know how to use them and don’t become stressed.
Here’s how to implement feed and exercise changes for horses that are overweight or obese.
Learn how to help your horse shed his excess pounds safely.
Follow these steps to help your overweight horse subsist on fewer calories.
An equine nutritionist explains how to rectify common mistakes owners make while feeding easy keepers.
Learn how horses go from metabolic to laminitic and ways to manage them.
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