The Importance of Vitamin E in Your Horse’s Diet
…hot environments. Horses in northern climates are even more likely to be deficient due to the short growing season and long hay feeding season. Several diseases besides tying up are…
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Grain Quality And Your Horse`s Feed
…age of your horse’s mixed feed are paramount. Hard-working horses require more calories than other horses, but the nutritional balance is the same. Start With Good Grains. Grains are graded…
Colic Season
…turnout to stall confinement and from grass to dry hay puts the horse at particularly high risk for colic. When real life intervenes (hay shortages, drought, horse moved to a…
Ask Horse Journal: 09/01
…levels and then the results of your study. If a horse has Cushing’s and arthritis, thus needing a joint supplement, what would you recommend’ -M. Provost Nevada The horse received…
Beware Of Blister Beetles
…(sometimes even fewer) beetles can severely injure or kill a horse. When feeding alfalfa be alert for early symptoms of oral irritation, such as drooling, playing in the water and…
Odd Oral Behaviors
…months of her life, unable to nurse. Could this have caused her to windsuck now’ Also, I heard that feeding baking soda can help/cure cribbing/windsucking. Is this true, and is…
Sub-zero hay soaking
For much of the year, soaking hay to protect the lungs of horses with recurrent airway obstruction (ROA, also known as heaves) is easy: You simply immerse the flakes in a…
Sub-zero hay soaking
For much of the year, soaking hay to protect the lungs of horses with recurrent airway obstruction (ROA, also known as heaves) is easy: You simply immerse the flakes in a…
Question Dewormer Safety
…(see www.horse-journal.com for back issues). We plan an update to that article this coming fall. Locking stifles in young horses can indeed be a temporary problem, especially in youngsters that…
Thyroid Enlargement
…adult horses and neonatal foals. Overfeeding kelp or mixing supplements with generous iodine content is the usual cause. Pregnant mares may abort, and live foals born to these mares may…