Nutritional Articles

Horses should ideally be allowed consistent access to forage. If this is not possible because your horse is a good-doer NEVER feed less than 1.5% of the horse’s body weight on a dry matter basis as forage.

Horses thrive on routine, however maintaining this routine can be tricky during a competition schedule or when travelling your horse.

A two-part feeding system allows flexibility in your horses diet in terms of calorie and energy intake.

Most of us will have heard the word being used possibly in relation to zoo animals, but how many of us try to enrich our horses lives and environments?

It is now a common understanding that the minimum any horse should eat to maintain a healthy digestive system is 1.5% of their body weight in dry matter per day. For horses at grass, how do we calculate this intake?

Molasses is an ingredient that is commonly used in horse feed. It is often associated with the negative impacts of feeding a high sugar diet, but what are the facts?

Daytime forage deprivation may cause Equine Squamous Gastric Disease whereas night-time restriction in the same horses may not. So, using this information it seems appropriate to prioritise daytime forage over large haynets at night for good-doers if you can't feed ad-lib.

During the first three months of lactation, broodmares have a significantly increased demand for energy in order to support both their own and the nursing foals’ nutritional requirements.

Tying-Up or ER (exertional rhabdomyolysis) is a problem that every yard will encounter at some point in time with reports of 5-7% of the thoroughbred population being affected.