What Is a Maintenance Diet for Horses?
Clair Thunes, PhD
October 28, 2019
Our equine nutritionist explains what the term “maintenance diet” means and how it applies to your horse.
Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
Our equine nutritionist explains what the term “maintenance diet” means and how it applies to your horse.
By prolonging feeding time and stimulating more saliva production, large pellets of concentrated feeds could extend mealtime and offer protection from gastric ulcers.
Researchers investigated whether microbiome composition could be breed-specific and, therefore, influence horse health and behavior.
Bluegrass is an excellent horse pasture forage because it’s nutritious, palatable, and tolerant of close grazing.
With the cold weather almost upon us, we must take into account several important considerations for preparing and maintaining older horses throughout winter.
While it can be unsettling to think about all the possible scenarios, planning before colic happens could save your horse’s life.
While experts recommend barley straw as donkey forage, its availability is limited in the United States. Our equine nutritionist offers alternatives.
While copper, zinc, iron, and selenium get a lot of attention in equine diets, manganese, iodine, and cobalt are also important for horse health.
As autumn approaches, consider whether you need to make changes to your horse’s diet in preparation for winter.
Horses with conditions such as muscle or metabolic disease might have special hay needs to stay healthy.
A listener asks about her horse’s anemia, and Dr. Bryan Waldridge explains the causes and what it means.
Although the researchers saw no effect of starch source on fecal bacteria in broodmares, parturition did appear to alter the hindgut microbiota.
As we move into fall, here’s a quick list of recommendations from the University of Kentucky to help manage pastures.
Just six or seven months ago, Kentucky was dealing with overabundant rainfall and soaked pastures, but now things are close to bone dry. Kentucky needs rain, and fast.
Get advice about keeping senior horses’ joints comfortable from Dr. Bryan Waldridge, who treats retired champion racehorses at Old Friends, in Georgetown, Kentucky.
The Retired Racehorse Project offers three educational seminars on Friday, Oct. 4, hosted by the editors of The Horse: Your Guide to Equine Health Care.
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