Unsound and Overweight Horses
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
August 21, 2024
Find out how you can keep your metabolically efficient horse healthy when he’s laid up with an injury or chronic illness.
Find out how you can keep your metabolically efficient horse healthy when he’s laid up with an injury or chronic illness.
Is one grass hay variety more palatable than another? Should I feed my horse the first or second cutting of hay? Equine nutritionists answer these questions and more.
Dr. Frank Andrews describes how you can reduce your horse’s risk of hindgut ulcers while helping him safely lose weight.
An equine nutritionist explains how a broodmare’s nutritional needs change during her pregnancy.
As horses age, they might need additional nutritional support. Read advice for feeding senior horses.
Dr. Mary Beth Gordon describes common treatment protocols for hindgut ulcers in horses and the role horse owners play in treatment.
When fed correctly, alfalfa might help prevent gastric ulcer development. One expert explains the importance of timing and amount when feeding horses alfalfa.
Old wisdom tells us not to feed horses before exercise. But this outdated belief might be hurting your horse.
Addressing your high-energy horse’s behavior using diet might involve some trial and error. Learn what you should consider before adjusting his feeding program.
Find out if you can feed newly harvested hay or if you should wait and let it “sweat” or “cure.”
An equine nutritionist explains how to calculate the amount of hay your horse eats annually and how to reduce hay waste to stretch your budget.
Getting back to basics and simplifying meals might be the key to keeping the horse’s hindgut healthy and functioning properly.
Remember these tips on leaving food and water for horses should you need to evacuate without them during a disaster.
Discover what, when, and how to feed horses with metabolic issues such as EMS, ID, and PPID.
Horses evolved to eat frequent, small roughage meals throughout the day, so why do we only feed them twice? Read more in The Horse‘s 2024 Preventive Care issue.
Find out why your horse might benefit from a “dunk bucket.”
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