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Feed Room Security – What is most important to your horse?
The area where feed is stored can be very important to the long term health of your horse. Feed room security is essential and failure to store feed properly can be hazardous to your horse. Feed...
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Fiber in Horse Feeds
Horses should consume 1.0 - 1.5% of their bodyweight per day in quality roughage to meet their fiber needs. The first and foremost source of fiber in a horses’ diet is their roughage, or hay, source...
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Nutrena Nutrition Tips: Feeding Horses During Reduced Work
Learn our top tips for feeding your horse during reduced work. Tiffany Pattison, a consultant for Nutrena, shares valuable insights and recommendations....
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Horse Feed With High Fat Content – The Evolving Role of Fat: The Omega-6 and Omega-3 Ratio
The use of fat in the equine diet has a long history. A very old book, Horse Secrets by A.S. Alexander, published in 1913, points out that horse traders knew back then that adding fat to the diet wa...
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Horse Feeding Problems? The Root Cause of (Most) Feeding Problems
A couple of months ago, a friend asked me about feed for her 20-something retired Jumper that was losing weight coming out of winter. It’s not uncommon for a horse to shed a few pounds during th...
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Feed Room Security: What is most important to your horse?
The area where feed is stored can be very important to the long term health of your horse. Feed room security is essential and failure to store feed properly can be hazardous to your horse. Feed...
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Does feed affect attitude in horses?
I was recently asked by a fellow horse owner if I felt diet could play a role in the disposition of her horse. My answer was “Yes, equine diet can have some influence on equine disposition....
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Avoiding a Hay Belly
Willow has had 4 foals, and as a result, tends to show characteristics of a hay belly. As equine nutrition experts, we have often heard “my horse has a hay belly, what should I do differently?&#...
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Group Feeding Tips for Small Facilities
We are a far cry from a fancy operation with four horses on my property to manage. The horses in our herd live outside in one of two paddocks with fulltime access to a run-in shed which is divid...
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Estimating Winter Hay Needs
Question: We recently purchased a farm and will be housing our two quarter horses over the winter. They are trail horses who are not ridden during the winter. Because I’ve always boarded my hors...
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How to Weigh your Horse Without a Scale
Don’t keep a commercial scale handy? Here is a simple and accurate way to weigh your horse without a scale at all!...
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Does My Horse Need a Diet or Exercise Change?
During an Equine Nutrition class, a student requested an evaluation of her horse to determine if any diet or exercise changes were necessary. This case highlighted the importance of assessing a horse&...
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Do You Know the Feeding Rate For Your Horse Feed?
During a horse owners meeting, a conversation with a trainer revealed the negative consequences of not following proper feeding rates. The trainer had switched to a competitor’s product without ...
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5 Myths About Feeding Your Horse
Feeding horses can be enough of a challenge, without having to wonder if what you’ve heard lately is true. Here, we bust five common horse feed myths to help you out....
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Feeding Weanlings
You have followed your preferred method for weaning foals and you have followed the directions below: You made certain that the foals were consuming at least 1 pound of a feed per month of age of a fe...
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What’s the Shelf Life of Horse Feed?
Feed freshness is a concern for many horse owners. We all want to feed our horses the best we can. When it comes to freshness there are several factors involved, one of those being the exp...
