Owners who struggle to provide their horses with consistently good-quality forage might be able to improve feed digestibility and topline development by offering these horses a fortified feed, researchers find.
An equine nutrition expert shares tips for feeding horses during natural disasters.
A researcher investigated how long horses spent eating when offered varying amounts of soluble fiber. Her findings could help your horse avoid health and behavior issues, such as gastric ulcers and cribbing.
How do you make space for horse feed when packing for a multiday trip? Our equine nutritionist offers suggestions.
Our nutritionist just helped Pony Club kids with their feeding charts. Here’s why she thinks you should review yours, too.
Tips include ensuring constant forage access, providing pasture turnout, and limiting concentrate intake, among others.
Equine glandular gastric disease has a distinct pathology, risk factors, diagnostics, and treatment approaches.
Are your feeding practices doing more harm than good? Experts share four ways to improve your horse’s digestive health.
A Virginia Tech researcher investigated the impact of diet on lesson horses. Here’s what she found.
Set your new horse up for success by following these tips to transition his diet and avoid gastric ulcers.
Over time, horse feeds manufactured to meet equine energy and nutrient needs have evolved from mixes of whole grains to textured, pelleted, and extruded types. But does that change how feeds affect horses?
Fed as a concentrated calorie source, oats have been the go-to grain for horsemen for generations, especially on the track. But should a Thoroughbred continue eating oats after retirement?
Careful dietary consideration can help make an OTTB’s transition from racehorse to pleasure or sport horse easier on his digestive system.
Riding and camping in wilderness areas can present challenges for feeding your horse. Here are some tips.
Nearly half of the European feed samples researchers analyzed had levels of pyrrolizidine alkaloids—naturally occurring, potentially toxic organic compounds—that were higher than the accepted maximum tolerated levels, they said.
Read about research into increasing the time horses spend eating (a good thing) without feeding them too much (a bad thing), along with more take-homes from the 2019 Equine Science Society Symposium.
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