Consider these factors when thinking about your horse’s pasture forage quality. Read more in the Summer 2025 issue of The Horse.
An equine nutritionist shares how to calculate your horse’s annual hay intake and how to reduce hay waste to help stretch your budget.
Grass sugar levels shift with time of day, season, and weather. Careful turnout timing can help prevent problems in horses with EMS, IR, or a history of laminitis.
Here’s why you should consider how closely horses graze, along with compost, water, and rest to cultivate healthy soil in horse pastures.
Abruptly putting a horse on pasture can lead to colic or laminitis. Here’s advice to help avoid health problems.
Learn how to tailor your mare and foal’s feeding program from late pregnancy to weaning with expert guidance.
An equine nutritionist emphasizes the importance of fiber in horse diets and shares 2 rules for safe fiber-feeding practices.
Dr. Patty Graham-Thiers describes the safest ways to help a horse lose weight without overrestricting his forage intake and increasing his risk of gastric ulcers.
Dr. Kelly Vineyard explains how to estimate the amount of grass your horse consumes when turned out on pasture and calculate his total daily forage intake.
When your older horse’s pearly whites are past their prime, keep an eye out for signs of specific problems.
Find out what causes watery feces in horses and whether you should be concerned.
Find out how climate change might affect your horse’s pasture in this U.S. region.
Learn how to craft a diet for the horse with painful lesions in his stomach.
Find out how horses can be exposed to and affected by these toxic compounds.
Horses can consume hay pellets or cubes rapidly. How can we slow them down to increase their time spent chewing?
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.
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