Dr. Steve Higgins of the University of Kentucky optimizes daily barn tasks for efficiency, cost savings, and environmental soundness.
Feeding your horse forage before a ride can protect the stomach from splashing gastric acid.
Feeding your horse extra calories can add unnecessary energy, making them ‘hot.’
The quality of hay can create a hay belly.
Nutritionist: Soaking beet pulp helps with hydration, but dry beet pulp is also typically safe to feed some horses.
Does alfalfa make horses “hot”? Should they not eat before exercising? Many of our feeding practices are based on tradition, but what’s really best for our horses?
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares how EPM recovery might vary among horses based on the severity of the disease.
EPM can be difficult to diagnose. Dr. Sarah Colmer explains how veterinarians use a neuro exam, bloodwork, and cerebrospinal fluid to confirm an EPM diagnosis.
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares management practices and preventive measures horse owners can implement to protect horses from EPM.
Dr. Sarah Colmer of the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center describes this neurologic disease and how horses contract it.
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is notoriously difficult for veterinarians to diagnose and equally tricky to treat. But there’s hope as researchers continue to investigate this neurologic disease. Sponsored by Kentucky Performance Products.
A listener wonders if horses benefit from a balanced omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. Dr. Clair Thunes responds.
Dr. Amanda Adams and Erica Jacquay of the University of Kentucky describe new research on how horses of all ages respond to transport—even just trips of 1.5 hours.
Dr. Alicia Long describes behavioral signs a horse with gastric ulcers might exhibit.
Dr. Alicia Long answers a listener’s question about why a horse might suffer from fecal water that’s worse in the fall.
And should I feed them to my horses? Dr. Alicia Long of the University of Pennsylvania answers.
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