Lactating mares’ nutritional requirements increase drastically in order to maintain weight while providing nursing foals with enough critical nutrients.
This suggests old horses need an appropriate diet and management plan to help minimize the risks associated with insulin dysregulation, such as laminitis.
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.
Our equine nutritionist explains the differences between horse life-stage and feed types.
Consider your horse’s diet when helping him make a smooth transition from winter to spring.
Make sure your horse’s diet supports his regular exercise program with these tips.
A ration balancer might offer the best balance of nutrients and protein for your horse during stall rest.
Rapidly adding concentrates to horses’ diets resulted in immediate and short-term effects on the cecal microbiome, pH, and volatile fatty acid production, reducing the cecum’s microbial diversity.
Need to stretch your hay supply? Consider adding hay cubes, complete feeds, or forage byproducts.
Learn what distinguishes PPID, EMS, and IR from each other and how to care for “metabolic” horses.
Learn more about nutrition’s role in the development and management of equine endocrine disorders and how you can reduce your horse’s risk of developing a secondary disease.
Here are a few ways to make feeding time more efficient without sacrificing your horse’s dietary balance.
Ensure horses and livestock have adequate shelter, water, dry bedding, and feed to make it through the cold spell.
Zinc-deficient horses can exhibit reduced growth rates, inappetence, and skin abnormalities, among other issues.
I used a senior equine feed to help my hard keeper gain weight. Now, should I switch him to a low-NSC product?
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