Nutrition

Vitamins are required by the horse for growth, tissue maintenance, body function, and optimum athletic performance. Vitamins are classified Read more

Cribbing and wood chewing are vices or stereotypies, repetitive behaviors that seem to have no obvious purpose. Cribbers set Read more

When a horse is exercising strenuously, natural stores of antioxidants have difficulty providing sufficient protection against the cascade of Read more

Recently, there has been particular interest in copra as a feed ingredient because of its low nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) Read more

Equine Veterinary Journal recently published a special supplement that presented a collection of research on colic. One of the papers provided Read more

Pumpkin contains an enormous amount of vitamin A and a good supply of vitamins C and E. Read more

Several researchers have attempted to find a correlation between weather and incidence of colic, though evidence is not conclusive. Read more

Some breeders are faced with the difficult issue of raising an orphan foal. While bottle feeding formula is the Read more

Pastures offer horses the most natural of feedstuffs, a variety of plants to derive nutrients. Well-maintained pasture provides the Read more

Whether recovering from injury or surgery, or confined for another reason, a horse on stall rest can be challenging Read more