Proper Horse Health Care Involve Diets
Horses become overweight for the same reason we do-they eat more calories than they burn. It isn’t any healthier for them than it is for us. Putting your horse on…
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Managing the Changing Needs of Older Horses
…have included aged horses at the Kentucky Horse Park, reminds people to use their hands, not just their eyes, when evaluating a horse’s weight. “When considering the normal horse’s ideal…
Five Management Tips for Overweight Horses
…control–most horse owners find a way to employ management tactics to keep the waistlines of their horses in check. Five management tips for overweight horses: 1. Limit grazing. Sure, you’ve…
Let ‘Em Eat Hay
…Veterinary Medicine studied 300 horses living on pasture that were owned by their field-service clients. They found that 51% of the horses were overweight, and that 19% of the overweight…
Year-Round Health Plan for Your Horse
…Grain Although most horses enjoy eating grain, many don’t need it and will become overweight if you feed it. Growing horses, horses in regular work, and pregnant or lactating mares…
Fit is the Best Color: How to Manage Your Horse’s Weight
…metabolic syndrome (EMS) that could be contributing to your horse’s weight problem. The Henneke Body Condition Scale helps horse owners assess the varying degrees of fat in their horses by…
Care and Feeding of Aging Horses
…conditions can interfere with the horse’s ability to chew feed, reduce digestion and ultimately affect the horse’s health. The molars at the rear of the horse’s mouth do the chewing,…
The Slaughter Question
…frightened, starving, injured, and frail horses, and the transport of those horses from auction to slaughterhouse, sometimes for days at a time in rigs unsuited for hauling horses, are a…
Winter Care and Feeding
…When they are turned out in cold, windy and/or wet weather horses need to be monitored carefully for shivering (whether blanketed or not). A horse’s respiratory health during the winter…
Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Infections in Horses
…as young horses, aged horses, and debilitated horses, should not be mixed with horses that do a lot of traveling. They may be harboring infectious organisms even if they are…