
Tips for Preparing Your Older Horse for Winter
With the cold weather almost upon us, we must take into account several important considerations for preparing and maintaining older horses throughout winter.
Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses

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.

Dr. Bryan Waldridge, who treats retired champion racehorses at Old Friends, shares specifics about the types of colic that are more common as horses age.

Do you want to give your horse the benefit of omega-3-rich flax but aren’t sure if you should feed it whole, ground, stabilized, or as an oil? Our nutrition expert helps sort through the differences.

In recent years it has become popular among North American horse owners looking to reduce the amount of sugar in their horses’ diets.

After a horse has had a bout of laminitis, can she be brought up slowly on grass again? If so, how soon can this be done?
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