Tips for Getting Horses to Eat Medications
Clair Thunes, PhD
April 2, 2026
Do you struggle to get pills into your horse? A nutritionist offers advice and some precautions.
Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
Do you struggle to get pills into your horse? A nutritionist offers advice and some precautions.
An equine nutritionist explains how to address common nutrition challenges when feeding horses with the dental condition EOTRH, before and after surgery.
Kelly Vineyard, PhD, shares expert insights on spring horse nutrition and common concerns such as metabolic health and pasture sugars.
What does it take to optimize a horse’s immune response and fight off disease?
Do you have a horse with flaky skin and a dry mane and tail? The right feed might help.
Careful dietary management helps horses with EMS stay in work while reducing laminitis risk.
Moisture meters can help you determine when to bale and store your horses’ hay and can protect against barn or storage building fires.
Selecting the right forage and concentrate for your horse and reassessing supplements can help reduce feed costs.
The correct choice depends on a horse’s diet, workload, and overall nutritional picture. Learn more in the Spring 2026 issue of The Horse.
Feeding weanlings through early training requires careful balance to support steady growth, proper mineral ratios, and sound development without overfeeding.
An equine nutritionist breaks down nutrition terms and acronyms, including NSC, WSC, and ESC. Understanding these concepts can help you manage horses with metabolic problems.
Treating equine gastric disease requires an accurate diagnosis and pharmacological therapy combined with management changes. Sponsored by Kelato.
Discover why this common pasture grass is good for grazing but bad for broodmares.
Find out how your horse’s diet could support shedding and his incoming summer coat.
Discover what scientists are learning about this dynamic area of research and how we can use it to promote equine health.
Proteins and the amino acids that form them play important roles in the horse’s body, from muscle building and function to neurotransmission and hormone synthesis.
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