Janet Johnston, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVS, shares 10 tips to keep horses comfy and safe in the summer heat.
This condition, caused by an unbalanced diet, can have serious musculoskeletal implications for affected horses.
Horses appear to select forages based on smell and taste rather than energy intake, researchers found.
Find out how feeding recommendations and diets for performance horses have changed over the years.
Some types of fescue infected with common endophyte strains could become more toxic when temperatures increase.
From feeding to vaccines and colic to lameness, here are some basic resources to get the new horse owner started.
The UKVDL’s new sample handling procedures appear to allow for more accurate ergovaline testing results.
White clover is the most widely found pasture legume in the United States.
The team confirmed that EMS horses aren’t always fat, but that obesity can point to an underlying metabolic condition.
Owners are encouraged to watch for sycamore seedlings, which can cause atypical myopathy, in horse pastures.
You should understand several factors—including age and use of the horse, season, species of pasture grass, pasture management practices, and grazing time available—to best utilize pasture as a part of your horse’s nutritional program.
Overconditioning, grazing during sunlight hours, and frozen footing could potentially trigger laminitic episodes.
Of the 1,442 respondents, 684 (47%) said their horses have access to fresh pasture for 12 hours or more each day.
The event is designed to teach owners how nutrition can affect their horses’ health and longevity.
Bahiagrass is a hardy grass species tolerant of drought and poorly drained soils of any type.
More than half of the 929 poll respondents said they have used slow feed haynets for their horses.
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