Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
Consider these dietary changes to help reduce the laminitis risk and discuss with your veterinarian whether certain medications could help your horse.
Horses consuming crude protein at 12% of total dry matter intake excreted more nitrogen, which led to greater ammonia emissions.
A forage-only diet and transported before exercise could positively impact horses’ exercise performance, researchers found.
An average mature horse at rest or performing light exercise requires 3.5 milligrams of iodine per day. This increases in late gestation, lactating broodmares, and horses in heavy work.
Pasture managers can take simple steps to develop a healthy root system and, in turn, a more resilient and productive pasture. Here’s how.
Speakers will present on cost sharing, weed control, rotational grazing, ryegrass, and maintaining healthy horses.
Colic often needs immediate veterinary intervention. Dr. Louise Southwood offers advice for rural horse owners who live far away from their veterinarians.
Drs. Anthony Blikslager and Louise Southwood describe the reasons why older horses are at risk for colic.
Participating farms receive detailed pasture assessments, including grass species composition and tall fescue analysis.
Jerusalem artichoke meal showed promise in getting sugars out of healthy horses’ systems quicker than normal, but it hasn’t yet been tested in IR horses.
Dr. Anthony Blikslager reviews what to look for if you think your horse is colicking.
Researchers are working to help owners find ways to help their horses lose weight no matter their circumstances–from boarding facility set up issues to unsound horses that can’t be exercised.
Researchers identified “major misperceptions in how supplements are tested before being launched for sale” among surveyed Irish equestrians.
Learn how to plan forage purchases with this practical guide to hay cuttings, types, and quality.
Most bloodworm-associated colic patients did not exhibit severe colic signs, which could make this potentially deadly condition difficult to diagnose, researchers found.
Colic is the No. 1 killer of horses. Learn how to spot the signs and give your horse the greatest chance at survival.
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