With the variety of different feed and supplement choices available, it can be overwhelming to make decisions regarding your horse’s diet. It is important to remember that horses are grazing animals, designed to spend much of their day eating forage. Forage (grass...
By Dr. Allison Hartman If you’ve read Part 1 and Part 2 of our EGUS series, you now know how to recognize horses afflicted with EGUS and also the proven therapeutic methods used to treat such horses. This begs the question, how do we manage these ulcer...
Most of us feed some form of grain to our horses, but often we only do so because it is what we were taught, and not necessarily because we know they need it. Nor do we give a lot of consideration to what kind of “grain” or “concentrate” we feed. How important is...
Historically speaking, the level of horse care has never been better than it is right now, but as our horses routinely live into their late 20s and early 30s, meeting their nutritional needs can become a challenge. With that in mind, here are some helpful tips on how...
Horses evolved as a grazing animal, which means that they are meant to nibble on small amounts of food over the course of an entire day, and most of this food should be in the form of roughage, or hay. Roughage is one of the most important parts of a horses’...
