Nutrition Considerations When Importing Horses From Europe
Clair Thunes, PhD
July 7, 2025
Learn about feeding your new horse during transport, quarantine, and the first few weeks at his new home.
Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
Learn about feeding your new horse during transport, quarantine, and the first few weeks at his new home.
Read top tips and tricks for medicating your horse with everything from antibiotics and anti-inflammatory tablets to anti-ulcer pastes and deworming medications.
Prevent weight loss in horses by testing hay, monitoring calorie intake, and adding fat or fiber to maintain body condition through seasonal forage changes.
Do you have a messy horse that dumps her feed in the dirt? Try these tips to make sure she gets the nutrition she needs.
Nutritional strategies targeting oxidative stress and inflammation can help maintain cellular balance and support a horse’s long-term health and performance.
Do you know how much your horse’s feed, hay, and supplements cost?
An equine nutritionist describes the role of magnesium in a horse’s diet and why performance horses might benefit from supplementation.
Find out if you can feed newly harvested hay or if you should wait and let it “sweat” or “cure.”
Scientists believe feeding horses a high-protein meal shortly after exercise could improve muscle health and growth; however, more research is needed.
Where do free radicals come from, and how do antioxidants regain control of these wayward molecules? We answer these questions and more.
Evaluate how supplements can fit into a complete equine management program.
These 6 steps can help transform your horse’s topline from underdeveloped to well-toned.
What are enteroliths and what happens if your horse has one (or several)?
Grass sugar levels shift with time of day, season, and weather. Careful turnout timing can help prevent problems in horses with EMS, IR, or a history of laminitis.
Learn what nutrients are in your senior horse’s feed and why his body needs them.
Veterinarians can guide horse owners in choosing supplements by assessing diet first, identifying the horse’s needs, and then recommending evidence-based ingredients.
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