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Close-up of horse with pricked ears
December 04, 2017

Antianxiety Supplements: Do They Work In Horses?

Researchers set out to compare the effects of acepromazine, a common neuroleptic agent that produces marked sedation, with a Read more
Dark Bay Arabian horse drinking
July 07, 2017

Drinking Behavior of Horses: Six Facts About Water Intake

Providing fresh, clean water to horses at all times remains a basic principle of horsemanship. Read more
Horse eating grain in a stall
March 28, 2017

Appetite Stimulation for Horses

When a typically ravenous horse leaves grain in his bucket or doesn’t seem interested in hay, it is cause Read more
Cribbing horse
February 26, 2016

Unusual Appetite: Your Horse Eats What?

Horses consume a wide array of odd food and nonfoods for various reasons, namely curiosity and boredom but occasionally dietary deficiencies Read more
Two horses eating from trough
November 25, 2015

Improving Horse Behavior at Feeding Time

Researchers suggest five guidelines to help decrease agonistic behavior among horses at feeding times. Read more
Fat horse in field
July 08, 2015

Obese Horses Likely to Be More Dominant

According to a team of British researchers, the more dominant a horse, the more likely it is to have Read more
Horse eating from a slow-feed haynet
November 25, 2014

Horse Eating Too Fast? Slow It Down!

Most horses love to eat; that’s normal. However, if your horse eats too much, or too fast, or too Read more
Horses grazing in pasture
September 19, 2014

Grazing Behavior in Horses

An article in Journal of Equine Veterinary Science presented information on production and environmental impacts of grazing that might be of interest to horse Read more
Woman feeding a horse in a stall
April 21, 2014

Relating the Five Senses to Feeding Horses

The five senses that we share with horses—sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—are used to explore and understand our Read more
Picture of an Appaloosa wearing a grazing muzzle and looking over the pasture fence.
April 11, 2014

Muzzle It: Correct Fit of Grazing Muzzles on Horses

Different management strategies have been employed to restrict the intake of fresh pasture by these horses. One of the Read more
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