Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
Before horses start grazing on the green grass this spring, check with your veterinarian to ensure your deworming program includes tapeworm control.
Proper spring turnout management and monitoring body condition are important steps to keeping your horse healthy.
Researchers are working to find other potential race-day therapies that can be used to manage EIPH if proposed legislation banning race-day furosemide use in the U.S. is passed.
Researchers are still lacking reliable tools to understand what good equine welfare looks like from the horse’s point of view, but they’re making progress.
Researchers identified a link between glucose and insulin concentrations (measured using an oral glucose test) and risk and onset of laminitis.
Consider your horse’s diet when helping him make a smooth transition from winter to spring.
Make sure your horse’s diet supports his regular exercise program with these tips.
While an average 1,100-pound adult horse at rest or lightly exercised requires only 400 milligrams per day, this mineral is important to bone and cartilage development.
Drs. Vern Dryden and Amanda Adams offer advice for managing EMS horses and selecting supplements.
A ration balancer might offer the best balance of nutrients and protein for your horse during stall rest.
An Icelandic Horse has tested negative for metabolic disease but is still gaining weight. Dr. Amanda Adams offers advice.
Rapidly adding concentrates to horses’ diets resulted in immediate and short-term effects on the cecal microbiome, pH, and volatile fatty acid production, reducing the cecum’s microbial diversity.
Dr. Amanda Adams explains the difference between equine metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance.
Thanks to advancements in colic diagnostics and treatment, a horse’s chances of survival and return to normal activity following surgery have never been better.
Need to stretch your hay supply? Consider adding hay cubes, complete feeds, or forage byproducts.
Learn what distinguishes PPID, EMS, and IR from each other and how to care for “metabolic” horses.
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