Optimizing Your Horse’s Feeding Program
Karen Davison, PhD
February 12, 2024
Follow these 3 steps to feed your horses efficiently and potentially help reduce your feed bill.
Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
Follow these 3 steps to feed your horses efficiently and potentially help reduce your feed bill.
Water is an essential nutrient for horses. Find out why it’s important to keep your horses’ water sources clean and explore common challenges horse owners face.
Find out how to design an affordable feeding program while still meeting your horse’s nutritional requirements.
An equine nutritionist breaks down what’s in a grain-free feed and how you might increase calories for a performance horse consuming a grain-free diet.
Here’s a look at what hair analysis and bloodwork each can tell you about your horse’s nutritional health.
This feed program appeared to improve one horse’s weight, skin, and coat and might have helped him avert gastric issues during a stressful situation.
A nutrition expert offers advice for ensuring free-fed horses don’t overeat hay.
Ditch traditional bran mashes (and the issues they can cause) for forage feeding to keep horses warm.
If your broodmare is overweight and/or has metabolic problems, her foal could be at risk. Here’s how you can keep both horses safe during pregnancy.
One equine nutritionist offers tips and asks for your input on dealing with ice in horse watering tanks.
If your horse is living in an area with poor air quality, he might benefit from wet or steamed hay and omega-3 supplementation.
If your horses have poor hoof quality, consider making changes to their diet to help strengthen their hooves.
Appropriate hydration is vital to your horse’s normal bodily functions. Here’s what you can do to ensure he is drinking enough this winter.
Horses are very adaptable and typically can handle significant temperature changes; however, when we alter their natural condition, they might struggle.
Is your hay more than 6 months old? Then it might be losing vitamin A and E.
Black cherry leaves are blowing into a horse pasture, and the owner is worried they will put her horses’ health at risk.
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