Food Enrichment Activities for Donkeys
Clair Thunes, PhD
November 5, 2017
Is your donkey bored? Here are suggestions for adding entertaining food to your donkey’s environment.
Proper feeding practices for foals, adult horses, and older horses
Is your donkey bored? Here are suggestions for adding entertaining food to your donkey’s environment.
The equine-focused workshop will be held at the American Forage and Grassland Council conference on Jan. 15, 2018.
If your cool-season grass pastures are green during the fall, chances are they’re healthy and productive.
With some measures in place, corn can be a valuable calorie source for horses in heavy work, our nutritionist says.
Protect pastures by using rotational grazing and managing manure.
Factors to consider include facility design, rotational grazing, recommended seeding practices, and toxic weeds.
A nutritionist can tell you if you’re over- or underfeeding or supplementing and address other equine diet concerns.
If your pastures are lacking in quality grasses, review these steps for renovating and improving grazing areas.
Owners considered veterinarians the most reliable information source, which researchers found encouraging.
In Part 1 of our series, learn which grasses commonly populate healthy horse pastures.
With Oktoberfest in full swing, we started to wonder: Is the racetrack tradition of giving horses beer a good idea?
Researchers found that some ponies are willing to exercise themselves … as long as there’s food involved.
Researchers say horses could help control some invasive species while maintaining good body weight.
Owners of horses with medical problems reported “good” results following nutritional consultation in 92% cases.
Horses voluntarily reduced their hay intake (and, thus, calorie consumption) when offered teff compared to ryegrass.
After graduating from UK, Heitz entered vet school at Auburn University, where she is on track to graduate in May 2018.
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