Nutrition

You can safely offer your horse raisins, grapes, bananas, strawberries, cantaloupe or other melons, celery, pumpkin, and snow peas. Read more

Match your horse's body condition score from 1 (poor) to 9 (extremely fat) with this free downloadable chart. Read more

In the past several decades, the world has witnessed the explosive growth of a multibillion dollar industry known as Read more

Planning a diet for a horse with equine metabolic syndrome depends on how severe the insulin resistance is and Read more

Some horse feeds produce more heat than others while being digested. Read more

Several studies have shown that digestibility of feed improves with exercise. Nutritional requirements and appropriately formulated diets need Read more

Several factors determine how quickly and thoroughly starch is digested by horses. These include properties of the starch granule; Read more

Slow hay feeders are a wonderful development for equines because they allow only a few bits of hay to Read more

According to a recent study*, horses do have specific “tastes.” Researchers found horses in the study preferred to eat Read more

According to researchers, just as in humans, not all fat deposits in horses are the same. Read more