Feeding Broodmares
Clair Thunes, PhD
August 13, 2025
An equine nutritionist explains how a broodmare’s nutritional needs change during her pregnancy.
An equine nutritionist explains how a broodmare’s nutritional needs change during her pregnancy.
Learn about 5 key physical indicators of forage quality and how to gather a hay sample and interpret a chemical analysis.
Get advice on encouraging a hard-keeper to eat more. The first step? Rule out health problems.
An equine nutritionist explains why your horse might waste concentrate and hay and how you can combat this.
As horses age, they might need additional nutritional support. Read advice for feeding senior horses.
Soaking hay can reduce sugars for metabolic horses but must be managed carefully in summer to avoid mold. An equine nutritionist shares advice.
Prevent weight loss in horses by testing hay, monitoring calorie intake, and adding fat or fiber to maintain body condition through seasonal forage changes.
An equine nutritionist shares how to calculate your horse’s annual hay intake and how to reduce hay waste to help stretch your budget.
Horses evolved to eat frequent, small roughage meals throughout the day, so why do we only feed them twice?
Find out if you can feed newly harvested hay or if you should wait and let it “sweat” or “cure.”
Nutritional evaluations take the guesswork out of whether your horse is consuming a balanced diet.
These 5 steps can help you prevent and eliminate odors on your farm and create a cleaner space for your horses.
Find out how to manage and remove horse waste from your farm in a safe and effective way.
If you can see your horse’s ribs or his topline is lacking, he might need to gain weight or muscle. But how can you tell which he needs?
Sustainable hay production involves practices that protect the environment while yielding high-quality hay. Here’s how to grow or source sustainably produced hay.
Sourcing lower-energy hay and implementing slow-feeding strategies can help reduce your horse’s risk of becoming obese and developing metabolic problems.
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