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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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Proceed Carefully: Feeding Neglected Horses

Proceed Carefully: Feeding Neglected Horses. For many horsemen and horsewomen, nothing proves more heartbreaking and maddening than seeing horses in...

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Pros and Cons of Using Haynets: New Information

Pros and Cons of Using Haynets: New Information! For every good reason to manage a horse in a particular fashion...

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