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Learn how to manage equine obesity, monitor changes in body fat, and support safe weight loss in horses with practical feeding and management advice.

Find out how a forage analysis helps balance your horse’s diet. Learn when to test hay, haylage, or grass and how results guide equine nutrition.

Hay prices have surged to £151 per tonne – £78 higher than this time last year – while an exceptionally wet winter has left paddocks muddy and grass scarce. With many owners relying heavily on hay, haylage and forage replacers, careful forage management is essential. Here are our top tips to help you make supplies go further without compromising your horse’s health.

Manage your horse’s grass intake with this practical UK guide. Discover how much grass horses eat per hour and learn effective strategies to control grazing for overweight and good doer horses, while maintaining natural grazing behaviour and digestive health.

Weight tapes can be a very useful tool to help you manage your horse’s weight.

By focusing on high-quality forage, and choosing a suitable conditioning feed, you can help your poor doer stay at an optimal condition, year-round

We are often asked: ‘what is the optimum body condition score for my horse to be in?’

In order to put condition on a horse, you need to increase his intake of digestible energy.

Senior Nutritionist, Lizzie Drury, explains what to look out for when managing horses and ponies with equine metabolic syndrome (EMS), based on her own management techniques with her pony Rita, whose body shape illustrates very well where fat pad areas and higher risk areas are.