Something Extra For Joints
Some nutritional additives, or supplements, are proven to help a horse improve its athletic potential – a growing number of horse owners and trainers are aware that alternative therapies and dietary supplements are useful in treating many conditions and illnesses that affect horses.
Disorders Caused By Feeding Practices
Now, more than ever, with so many horses developing metabolic problems, we must recognize that horses still are simply grazing herbivores. They are equipped with a digestive tract and endocrine system that can handle large quantities of fiber but are not very efficient at metabolizing, absorbing, and processing sugar.
Classifying Commercial Horse Feed
Looking through and examining the many types of equine feed available in today’s market can be an overwhelming and frustrating experience. Textured, processed, complete, what does it all mean?
Alfalfa and The Equine Diet – Its Uses And Benefits
For horses, the sweet smell and green, leafy look of alfalfa is hard to resist. While horses love the taste of this forage, it often comes with a variety of myths and misconceptions that lead horse owners to underutilize this valuable forage in their horse’s diet.
Equine Immunity: How Nutrition Can Improve Immune Response
Keeping horses healthy and free of disease and disorders is a hot topic of conversation in many popular press journals, magazines and on the internet. Horse husbandry advice ranges from nutrition to shoeing and veterinary care.
Organic Selenium May Be Powerful Equine Antioxidant
Newly FDA-approved organic selenium improves selenium status in exercising horses, weanlings, and broodmares. Availability of selenium yeast represents a breakthrough in the equine industry that will assist equine professionals in addressing problems of marginal selenium status that affect the health and productivity of all classes of horses