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You Can’t Just Follow Your Gut with an EMS Horse

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Dr. Kellon

Following your gut instinct is good advice in some situations but gut, and even good old common sense, can also be wrong.  This is where fact and science come in. Correctly caring for a horse with insulin resistance takes some … Continue reading →

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Cold-Induced Hoof Pain

Posted on December 26, 2023 by Dr. Kellon

Frozen and lumpy ground can make any horse hesitant and short-strided. This is something different. Cold temperatures can trigger severe hoof pain in some horses – Plan ahead to mitigate this Most horses are energized by cooler weather, bucking and … Continue reading →

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The Power of Magnesium

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Dr. Kellon

Magnesium often receives little attention in equine nutrition. For example, you will rarely see it listed in the analysis on a feed bag. Despite this, it could easily be argued that no other mineral has as many important functions. The … Continue reading →

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Nitrate – A Hidden Danger Lurking In Hay

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Dr. Kellon

You can’t see it or smell it but hay can harbor toxic levels of nitrate. Nitrate is a simple molecule – one nitrogen and three oxygen. It is present naturally in soil minerals, is produced by bacterial breakdown of protein … Continue reading →

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A Non-Chemical Deworming Breakthrough

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Dr. Kellon

A natural drug alternative for deworming Necessity really is the mother of invention. This time it’s a different and very promising approach to the problem of anthelminthic-resistant Parascaris – roundworms. Roundworms can’t be controlled by the fungus Duddingtonia flagrans because … Continue reading →

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Sugar And Hoof Health

Posted on May 27, 2021 by Dr. Kellon

Sugar phobia has reached a point where virtually any problem with a horse’s hooves may be blamed on sugar. From thrush to weak laminar connections, sugar is being blamed for hoof problems. This often comes with stories like hooves “falling … Continue reading →

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Support Of Normal Sweating

Posted on March 22, 2021 by Dr. Kellon

Horses exercising in the heat quickly develop high body temperatures. The overheating can become life-threatening if they don’t have efficient ways of dissipating the heat. There are several ways heat leaves the body: Radiation: This is transfer of heat energy … Continue reading →

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Topping Off Hay Diets

Posted on November 27, 2020 by Dr. Kellon

Hay is just dried grass and grass is the horse’s natural food so it shouldn’t need any supplementation – right? Wrong. Variety is a major difference between the diet of feral horses and that of  domesticated horses fed hay.  The … Continue reading →

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Hemp for Horses

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Dr. Kellon

The endocannabinoid system is a feedback loop within the brain and all branches of the nervous system – higher brain functions of thought/memory/mood, movement, sensation, and the autonomic system which helps regulate all organs and the immune system down to … Continue reading →

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All Carbs Matter in Equine Metabolic Syndrome

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Dr. Kellon

There are physiological differences between humans and horses. For example, horses don’t produce high levels of ketones, even when starving.  Horses with EMS are not at high risk for cardiovascular disease the way humans are. They develop laminitis instead. Despite … Continue reading →

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