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How to Choose a Mare and Foal Feed
What is the best horse feed for growing horses? What nutrients do broodmares need? How can one feed support foals, weanlings, yearlings, and pregnant or lactating mares? Our equine nutritionists at Nu...
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Signs of a Healthy Foal
Chances are your foal will sail through the baby stage with flying colors. Especially if it's normal at birth and good management practices are in place at your farm. However, even under the best cir...
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Feeding Foals During Weaning and Post Weaning – An Important Time Period for an Equine Athlete
Properly preparing the foals to be weaned can make the process much easier for everyone! Keep in mind that weaning can be a high stress period for the foal. With that in mind, other high stress events...
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Milk Replacer for Foals
A friend recently called, asking if I had bottles for foals. She explained that her mare had rejected her foal, and the said they were going to have to start feeding milk replacer. I then asked my fri...
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Tips for Putting Weight on Your Horse
Do you have a hard keeper? This informative video explains how to effectively increase your horse's caloric intake and help put weight on him....
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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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Creep Feeding Foals
Newborn Foal, Ella takes in the world next to mom, Serena When was the last time you picked a mare out for breeding based solely on the fact that she was a good milker? If you are like most horse owne...
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Feeding Foals
Similar to human babies, the nutrition and care a foal receives in the "baby" stage can have an effect on its whole life, including soundness and development issues that may not become obvious until y...