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Counting Calories at the Barn

In the January 2007 issue of Horse & Rider, we offer some tips for getting fit--and slim while you spend time at the barn and with your horse. To help...

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Send Your Horse To Fat Camp

We've become so accustomed to seeing shiny, sleek-coated horses with lots of extra flesh that we easily forget they're actually fat. Some people actually use the phrase,...

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Putting Weight on Your Horse for Winter

[/caption] If your horse is on the skinny side, take steps now to put some pounds on him before winter arrives. A horse with a good body weight will fare better...

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Feeding Older Horses

Question: I have an Arabian/Quarter Horse gelding who is 15.3 hands and 1,000 pounds. He's between 23- and 25-years old and I've owned him for the past 17 years. He...

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Weanling and Yearling Diets Require Feed in Addition to Mare's Milk

It's absolutely essential to provide foals with balanced, nutritious feed. After all, young horses can't manufacture what they need out of thin air! Young Horse bones...

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Feed Basics for Pregnant Mares

Pregnant mares are in fact "eating for two," as they say. Your mare has her own feed requirements, but then you must add to that the requirements...

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Equine Food Pyramid

Nearly everyone has seen or heard of the USDA's food pyramid for people. The original food pyramid gave recommendations for carbohydrates, proteins and fats in "servings," and...

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Remember those gut-wrenching Saturday mornings where you sweated over Scholastic Aptitude Tests? Here's your chance to revisit the SAT-style analogy questions, but this time with horse-related terms and information that...

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Should You Feed Beet Pulp?

Beet pulp contains lots of fermentable fiber and is fairly easy for horses to digest. It is often incorporated into "complete" or "high fiber" commercial concentrates as a source of...

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Control Calorie Intake of Pasture-Kept Horses

[/caption] Q: I’ve been told to feed 2 percent of my horse’s body weight in forage each day. How do I estimate how much weight in grass (in our case a brome/clover mix)...

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