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Feedstuffs for Horses: All About Beet Pulp

Feedstuffs for Horses: All About Beet Pulp.  Fifty years ago, many knowledgeable horsemen would find it difficult to identify beet...

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Best Practices for Managing 4 Types of Forage

Best practices for managing 4 types of forage: Capitalize on your forage management to optimize cattle nutrition.  Each forage type...

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Letting Horses Do the Work

Letting Horses Do the Work: In addition to being ridden or driven for pleasure, many horses still work for a living....

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Feed Management Should Mimic Nature

Feed Management Should Mimic Nature: By understanding the horse’s instinctive feeding behavior, today’s feeding strategies can be shaped to mimic natural...

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Restricting Forage Intake in Stubbornly Obese Horses

Restricting Forage Intake in Stubbornly Obese Horses: A medley of contributing factors can lead to obesity in horses. For example, overfeeding,...

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Feeding Horses Before Exercise: What to Feed and When?

Feeding Horses Before Exercise: What to Feed and When? Three experiments were conducted to evaluate if feeding hay with and without...

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Considerations When Moving Horses to a Different Climate

Considerations When Moving Horses to a Different Climate: Do you travel a lot? Then you know that you need to...

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Long-Stem vs. Short-Stem Forages

Long-Stem vs. Short-Stem Forages: Nutritionists recommend horses consume at least one to two pounds (0.5 to 1 kilograms) of long-stem forage...

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Dealing with Horses That Don’t Like What You’re Serving

Dealing with Horses That Don’t Like What You’re Serving: Virtually all horses love to eat fresh green grass. Aside from...

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Cushing’s Disease in Horses and Importance of Diet

Cushing’s Disease in Horses and Importance of Diet: Pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID, equine Cushing’s disease) is an age-related endocrine...

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