Restoring muscle glycogen, rehydrating, and ensuring a horse’s diet offers enough vitamin E all help with recovery after strenuous exercise.
Electrolyte loss through sweat can lead to dehydration, fatigue, and poor recovery. Here’s how to support your horse’s health during work and warm weather.
Nutritional evaluations take the guesswork out of whether your horse is consuming a balanced diet.
Grass sugar content fluctuates with the time of day, season, and weather. Timing turnout for horses with EMS, IR, or a history of laminitis can help prevent problems.
Learn what nutrients are in your senior horse’s feed and why his body needs them.
Your horse needs essential nutrients from the diet to stay healthy. An equine nutritionist explains how to meet those needs through proper feeding.
Horses need a variety of minerals in their diet to support basic system function and overall health. Find out how to be sure your horse is getting them.
Researchers continue to learn how the components of a horse’s diet can help battle inflammation. Learn more in The Horse‘s 2025 Older Horse Issue.
Does your old horse need additional vitamin supplementation in his later years? An equine nutritionist shares how to ensure your senior horse gets the nutrition he needs.
Here’s why you should consider how closely horses graze, along with compost, water, and rest to cultivate healthy soil in horse pastures.
Abruptly putting a horse on pasture can lead to colic or laminitis. Here’s advice to help avoid health problems.
These 5 steps can help you prevent and eliminate odors on your farm and create a cleaner space for your horses.
Learn how to store hay and grain properly—keeping nutrients in and mold, rodents, and spoilage out.
Do you have a horse with flaky skin and a dry mane and tail? The right feed might help.
Find out how to manage and remove horse waste from your farm in a safe and effective way.
If you can see your horse’s ribs or his topline is lacking, he might need to gain weight or muscle. But how can you tell which he needs?
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