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Rebound Technology™ – Only from Nutrena®
How can nutrition help support muscle recovery and fatigue? What blend of ingredients are optimal to repair a horse’s muscles after exercise? Is there a difference in Nutrena performance feed option...
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How to Choose a Performance Horse Feed
What is the best feed for performance horses? What ingredients support energy, strength, and stamina? How can your horse’s diet help build muscle and recover from exercise? Our equine nutritionists ...
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Digestive Shield™ – Only from Nutrena
What ingredients support foregut, stomach, and hindgut health? Is there a difference between prebiotics vs probiotics vs postbiotics? How can I support my horse’s gut and immune health? Our eq...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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!...