This research showed that legumes are high in nutritive value, yield well, are a preferred forage option for horses, and should be considered as a viable grazing option for horses with increased energy and nutritional needs.
Here is advice for keeping your horses warm and happy this winter.
Appropriate water, fiber and essential nutrients are needed to keep your horse healthy and warm during winter.
Here are tips on what owners can feed to help horses develop better toplines.
The diet of a sick or injured horse should be modified to help the horse heal quickly while meeting all of its nutrient needs.
Horse owners need to understand the causes and signs of heat stress in horses.
Ensure that your horses are getting the proper amount and quality of forage to maintain digestive health.
With what seems to be a rise in food allergies in humans, we find ourselves asking, does my horse have a food allergy?
As winter sets in and the pasture grass starts to disappear, there are three key factors that will play a role in your horse's health: water, fiber and essential nutrients.
It important to know the weight of both small square and large round hay bales to determine feeding rate and economic costs.
Hay soaking could be used by horse owners to reduce nitrate levels when high-nitrate hay is the only forage available.
Given the amount of time necessary to complete an endurance ride, it provides a tremendous opportunity for nutrition to influence the performance of an endurance horse.
The addition of omega-3 fatty acids has been shown to reduce inflammatory processes by decreasing prostaglandin formation.
Dietary fat in the form of vegetable oil or high-fat stabilized rice bran is beneficial for performance horses and for horses that need to gain weight.
By adhering to the principles of feeding plenty of fiber and choosing your horse’s feed according to workload, temperament and condition, you can help to achieve a healthy dressage horse with the energy needed to perform at his or her best.
Donkeys and mules have unique evolutionary traits that mean you should not feed them like a horse.
There are environmental conditions that affect how much feed your horse needs.
Facts on how Omega-3 and Omega-6 work in your horse's body.
Making sure that your event horse is getting all the nutrition it needs from its diet, to help to ensure the horse can perform to the best of its ability.
Tips from experts on how to best use grazing muzzles on horses and ponies.
Horse owners should keep your equine feeding system as natural as possible.
In reality feed likely has the potential to modify behavior, but there are several ways horse owners can minimize any potential effect of feed.
Shorter days and colder temperatures can only mean one thing: Autumn has arrived, and winter is close behind. For horses, this means that the lush pasture they enjoyed munching on in the warm sunshine will now be replaced by hay.
