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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.

Learn about common horse muscle myopathies – RER, PSSM, and MFM. Discover symptoms, diagnosis, and nutritional management strategies for tying-up in horses.

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.

Forage is essential to satisfy both the horse’s physical and psychological needs. The physical need for forage is to provide bulk and help to maintain a healthy digestive system, whilst the psychological need is that horses have a natural “drive” and need to chew as they are “trickle feeders”.

Exercise is an essential part of a weight-loss program; a horse will only lose weight if he is expending more energy than he is consuming.

Back to basics feeding rules.

During intense exercise, horses can lose up to 12 litres of sweat per hour, approximately 4% of their total body water.

Learn how to feed your horse for more energy. Discover the best feeds for instant energy, stamina, and endurance, plus tips for good-doers and performance horses.

There are some simple dietary adjustments that can put into place to help reduce the risk of tying-up, or other symptoms of muscle myopathies.