Cobalt is an essential part of vitamin B12, which plays a role in the amino acid and fatty acid metabolism as well as nervous system function, making it an important part of the equine diet.
The livestock heat index can help producers know when animals, including horses, are at risk for heat stress and require extra resources to combat and withstand the conditions.
Why might replacing long-stem hay with hay pellets help resolve a senior horse’s loose manure? Our equine nutritionist weighs in.
Horses are highly susceptible to botulism, which causes neurologic disease and death. Download this free fact sheet to learn more!
This carefully designed dressage boarding barn is chore-efficient and tidy. The details draw clients, save time, and help protect the environment.
While either the small or large intestines are usually the focus of colic discussions, the junction of the small intestine and cecum at the start of the large intestine—the ileocecal junction—also deserves mention.
Learn how to read supplement labels and the difference between ingredients that offer potential therapeutic benefits and those meant to improve flavor or act as preservatives.
These findings could eventually help veterinarians tailor medical care, feeding, and training to individual horses.
By adopting key planning and management strategies, owners can keep horses successfully on small properties. Learn about zoning regulations, manure management, insect control, insurance, and more in this free report!
Iron deficiencies are rare in horses, especially in those with access to good-quality pasture and hay.
Our nutrition expert explains how diet changes can help horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID).
Our nutritionist helps a reader make sense of horse feeds advertised as low-sugar, low-starch, lite, and more.
Find out how some simple diet changes might help calm your hyperactive horse.
These findings help us better understand how and why horses’ teeth wear as they do, researchers said.
Find out why this grass is a popular hay for horses and how, in some cases, it might cause problems.
Minimize your horse’s risk of ingesting a deadly plant by identifying and eliminating harmful species.
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