Nutrition

According to a recent study, starch-rich diets may help improve digestibility of fiber when horses are fed low-quality forages. Read more

Mechanisms responsible for making certain horses easy keepers remain unclear. Enhanced feed digestibility does not appear to be a Read more

Cider vinegar can be added to a horse's drinking water to mask slight differences in the taste or smell Read more

Stallions experience periods of decreased fertility during breeding season. Tracking certain proteins called caseins could reveal periods of high Read more

Different management situations call for different hay. Researchers described three case studies in which hay caused unexpected problems in Read more

When fed vitamin E alone or in combination with coenzyme Q10, untrained horses have less lipid peroxidation than unsupplemented Read more

High-starch meals appear to induce inflammatory responses in certain young, old, and overweight horses but at differing time points Read more

Researchers wondered how rhizoma peanut hay stacks up nutritionally against alfalfa, the gold standard legume for horses? Read more

Do you want to know more about the effects of spring grass on your horse’s gastrointestinal tract? What this webinar!  Read more

Horses supplemented with fish oil had increased circulating levels of the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA. Read more