Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
After reaching a record price of nearly $118 per ton last May, the cost of hay dropped to more normal seasonal levels by the end of the year, according to records maintained by Morgan Consulting Ltd. of Paola, Kan. While the
Here’s what you need to know about the stresses of cold weather and how it affects a horse’s metabolic demands.
Vitamins: tiny organic compounds that have a huge impact on the health and well-being of your horse.
Bran mashes are traditional meals for a wide variety of horses.
Grazing is a full-time job for horses. Given their druthers, they’d graze for 12 hours or more.
Not all horses are alike in their needs for electrolyte replacement after strenuous exertion. Some deplete the
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Of all the components of your horse’s diet, protein is probably the most misunderstood.
They look like rabbit food, and the technology that made those bunny pellets a complete diet now is used regularly to make feeds for horses. Granted, pelleted feeds don’t usually exude the tempting aroma that most molasses-laced
Change is taking place in the world of equine veterinary medicine as more and more horse owners and practitioners look to alternative or complementary forms of treatment or prevention for a wide variety of maladies. It wasn’t
Feed is a major expenditure for any horse owner, and we all want it to be money well spent–both in terms of nutrition and quality. Getting the best value often means buying and storing feed in bulk. But unless that’s done properly, you might
Homeopathy is the modality most difficult to describe in this series on alternative forms of medical treatment for horses. For one thing, even its most ardent advocates and learned practitioners don’t know exactly how it works. For another, ther
Encouraging water consumption is extremely important. This often starts by making sure your horses have free access to a good, clean water source.
Performing a hay analysis whenever you get a shipment of hay is an excellent management routine, especially since the results can have a significant impact on the grains and supplements you choose to feed.
Developmental orthopedic disease (DOD) remains one of the top concerns of breeders worldwide. Not one condition, but rather a series of related syndromes, DOD encompasses anything that contributes to poor skeletal development in foals: angular
Horse breeders noticed that they were having foaling problems with some mares which were grazing fescue grass or being fed fescue hay. Cattle producers reported that steers on fescue pastures or being fed fescue hay appeared to be unthrifty and that
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