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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.

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.

Fall is a pretty time of the year; however, falling leaves and other parts of some trees can pose a potentially deadly threat to our horses.

Keep your horse's feeding system as natural as possible.

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.

Nutritional management strategies to treat respiratory issues in horses are centered around decreasing inflammation.

Nutrition is a critical piece of any successful breeding operation and must be considered at every level, especially for young, growing horses.

Each mare is an individual, so make sure you monitor changes in body condition weekly and make feeding changes accordingly.

Nutrition is a critical piece of any successful breeding operation and must be considered for stallions, mares and foals. In this article we will focus on feeding the stallion.

This year most of the country has suffered from drought conditions, and local hays might be in short supply. Therefore horse owners might need to seek out alternative forages.

Commonly grouped under the term “Tying-up”, exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER) syndromes can be categorized into sporadic and chronic cases.

Cushing's disease, also known as PPID (pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction), is a progressive disorder that begins with the dysfunction of the pituitary gland.

Many horse owners struggle with the body condition of their horses. Some horses seem to gain condition easily, and others seem to eat and eat while not gaining body condition and becoming thin.

A nutritionally senior horse is one that can no longer eat its normal diet and maintain a proper body condition.

It’s tough to spot an obese horse when it’s your own. We tend to think, “She’s just big boned,” or “It’s her breed.” Many owners aren’t even sure what to constitutes “obesity.”

ometimes we connect so deeply with our horses that we almost forget they’re different from us. In reality, it’ll blow your mind to discover how incredibly unique horses’ bodies truly are. Here are three things about your horse you didn’t know: