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Forage

Hay Shortage: How to Make Your Forage Supplies go Further

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.

Hay Shortage: How to Make Your Forage Supplies go Further
Weight Management

Managing Grass Intake in Spring for the Good Doer or Metabolic Horse

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.

Managing Grass Intake in Spring for the Good Doer or Metabolic Horse
Weight Management

Learn How To Use A Horse Weight Tape

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

Learn How To Use A Horse Weight Tape
Managing Poor Doer Horses
Poor Doer

Managing the Poor Doer Horses

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

Managing the Poor Doer Horses
Feeding the Ex-Racehorse

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Maintaining Optimum Body Condition

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

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Maintaining Optimum Body Condition
Feeding the Ex-Racehorse

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Feeding for Weight Gain

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

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Feeding for Weight Gain
Managing the EMS Pony
Case Studies

Managing the EMS Pony

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.

Managing the EMS Pony
Gro-Trac®

Gro-Trac® – Equine Growth-Monitoring Software

The first tool of its kind, Gro-Trac® helps breeders track and compare their young horses’ growth with similar horses locally and internationally.

Gro-Trac® – Equine Growth-Monitoring Software
BETA EGUS Explained
BETA EGUS

Understanding BETA EGUS

Learn what BETA EGUS approval means and how it helps owners choose feeds that support equine digestive health. Discover how Saracen Horse Feeds meets these standards through research-led formulations and responsible feeding practices.

Understanding BETA EGUS