Articles
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Feeding Strategies for Diverse Horse Groups in Small Facilities
Managing a group of horses with varying nutritional needs in a small facility presents unique challenges. Differences in age, metabolism, temperament, workload, and at times based on whether their gel...
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Why Topline is not Just Important in Show Horses
Having a healthy topline is important for all horses whether they are pleasure horses, show horses or pets. If you go to the gym you will see everyone from the extreme athlete to people recovering fro...
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Complete Feeds: All Feeds are Not Created Equal
When selecting or purchasing a feed, it is important to ask for the ingredient list from the manufacturer because, the guaranteed analysis on the product label will not provide you with enough relevan...
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Prebiotics and Probiotics: Their Impact and Role on you Horse’s Digestive Health
The health benefits of prebiotics and probiotics have become all the rage. For the past several years, probiotics have been added to many different kinds of yogurt, juices, and other food products fou...
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Amino Acid Requirements for Horses
In order to fuel, repair, and recover muscle, equine diets must optimally contain a superior amino acid profile, including all 10 of the essential amino acids. Most horse owners can quickly name the c...
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Why use Soy in Horse Feed?
Soy has been a standard ingredient of horse feeds for many years. It can be found in several forms in equine formulations, each serving a different purpose. For horses, the most common soy ingredients...
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Why Different Feed Textures?
Considering all the types of feed that are available to you, how do you choose the ideal one for your horse? Should you opt for a textured feed or an extruded feed? Should the textured feed be whole-g...
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Quality and Safety Taste so Much Better
Looking through the feed bag, there is barley, corn, molasses. Even the protein content on the tag seems adequate. This feed may have been developed for milk production in cows but, regardless, it see...
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Exercise and Its Role in Your Horse’s Topline
A common misperception about topline is that it can be improved through exercise alone. Lack of exercise – or the wrong type of exercise is often blamed for a poor topline. While exercise alters exi...
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Saddle Fit Impact on Topline
Poor saddle fit can be a symptom of a much larger issue. If the musculature of the horse’s back/topline area is not full and rounded, expressing high quality of muscle, many times a saddle will not ...
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Topline is Key to Horse Well-Being
A poor topline is commonly viewed as a result of lack of exercise, inadequate saddle fit or genetics. However, nutrition is also an essential, and often overlooked, element to consider when looking fo...
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Preventing Joint Injuries in the Performance Horse
Though powerful, horses are also fragile. Since we are consistently pushing their limits, performance horses are the most vulnerable of all. The saying “illness comes on horseback but departs on foo...
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Preventing Recurrent Exertional Rhabdomyolysis
Recurrent Exertional Rhabdomyolysis (RER) is a chronic, debilitating condition that can shatter all of your hopes for your competition or racehorse. Fortunately, you can take preventative measures to ...
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Energy Needs for the Competition Horse
Regardless of the discipline, nutrition remains pivotal to achieving peak performance. Without a customized, nutritionally balanced ration, a horse will be unable to develop the levels of fitness and ...
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Planning Long Transports to Prevent Potential Problems
Whether a horse is transported over a short or long distance, it causes stress for the horse… and its owner! There are ways of reducing this stress and its consequences for horses. Studies show ...
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Nutrition Myths
There are many persistent myths in the horse world. People do all kinds of things by habit or by relying on advice from friends, such as a neighbour for whom a certain solution worked, or a coach who ...
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What is your horse’s body condition?
We all want healthy horses, with beautiful muscle tone, that are neither too fat, nor too thin. In short, we want our horse to have the ideal body condition! But what is an ideal body condition and, e...
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The Impact of Nutrition on Horse Excitability
Excitability in the horse is a major concern for many owners, from competing athletes to amateur riders. Any good rider will aim for the perfect balance between performance and control, seeking to pro...