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Feeding Yearlings
Whether you are prepping for sales and halter classes or trying your best to raise a healthy and sound youngster, careful attention to nutritional needs is a key component. Yearlings should not be fed like little adults. This handsome devil … Continue reading
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Tagged bone mineral density, calcium, calories, Copper, fat, Flax, halter class, Lysine, minerals, osteochondrosis, phosphorus, Protein, sales prep, yearling
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No Quick Fix for Laminitis Risk
It’s perfectly natural to want a silver bullet that will instantly remove the threat of devastating health problems like laminitis but it’s just not that simple. The classical laminitis stance is something you never want to see. The latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Acetyl L-Carnitine, exotoxins, Jiaogulan, Laminitis, minerals, starch, sugar, vaccine
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Designer Salt
Salt, sodium chloride (NaCl), is arguably the most important mineral. Animal life is believed to have emerged from the sea. Blood has many similarities to sea water, including a high concentration of sodium and chloride. Salts of many colors … Continue reading
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Tagged chloride, contaminants, minerals, natural, raw, salt, sodium, toxic
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Hay Analysis in Equine Nutrition
If you think a hay analysis is just something else unnecessary to waste your money on, please reconsider. The dairy and beef industry has been utilizing hay analyses since the 1800s. Why? Because it saves them money through maximized milk … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfalfa, balance, grass, growth, hay analysis, hooves, immunity, minerals, reproduction, skin
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Adjusting Nutrition for Winter
For some of us, winter has already arrived. For others, it’s just beginning in earnest. For all, the horse is facing some challenges. Horses actually tolerate and enjoy the cold a lot more than most of us do. Their neutral … Continue reading
Hay – Much More than Fiber
Hay used to be widely viewed as having little or no nutritional value beyond being a source of fiber which provided horses with chew time and made them feel full between meals. That has largely changed but even those who … Continue reading
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Tagged calories, fermentation, fiber, glucose, glycogen, Hay, minerals, Protein, vitamins, volatile fatty acids
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Feeding Weanlings
Weanlings have intensive nutritional needs and you shouldn’t start feeding them like a smaller version of an adult. Nutrient dense diets are those that have high levels of protein/amino acids and minerals per calorie. As you might expect, mineral requirements … Continue reading
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Tagged adult, calcium, developmental orthopedic disease, diet, Lysine, minerals, Omega-3, Protein, supplement, weanling
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Pasture vs Hay
Hay is just dehydrated grass but there are several differences between hay and the live plant that you need to take into consideration when adding pasture to the horse’s diet. Note: References in the following discussion to calories, protein and … Continue reading
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Tagged calories, estimating intake of pasture, minerals, pasture, Protein, vitamins
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In Defense of Wheat Bran
Wheat bran has gone from a darling of caretakers everywhere to one of the most widely criticized feeds. The ensuing impression that bran is somehow “bad” is unwarranted. In fact, bran has some very desirable characteristics. Bran’s high phosphorus content … Continue reading
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Tagged antioxidants, B-Vitamins, calcium, calories, fiber, minerals, phosphorus, phytate, Protein, wheat bran
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Feeding the Heavily Pregnant Mare
Can you just increase the amounts you are feeding but basically feed the prepregnancy diet and maintain the mare’s weight in pregnancy? Yes – her amount of fat anyway. Can you get a live, full term foal? Yes. Are you … Continue reading
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Tagged deficiency, goiter, minerals, OCD, Pregnancy, Protein
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