Equine Blog

Tips for Handling Horse Feed in Hot Weather

Handling and storing horse feed during the hot and muggy summer months can be a challenge. Here are 6 tips for keeping feed fresh during the summer.

Horse Heat Stress Management: Tips For Keeping Your Horse Cool In Summer

Not only do the summer months bring warmer temperatures and longer days, but they also bring more opportunities to ride and compete with your horse. As temperatures rise, so do the risks of your horse experiencing heat-related stress, such as dehydration and heat stroke.

Keeping Your Horse Healthy

Parasites are becoming resistant to current deworming products. This causes de-worming products to be less effective. Horse health can be adversely affected by a heavy parasite burden...

The Secret to Cold Weather Hydration

Winter Horse Care Tips for Owners

Horses can live outside in comfort year-round with a few amenities provided by their owners. Successful winter horse care should consider these four areas:

Feed modifications - Attention to detail

Mud and ice management - Shelter from the elements

Feeding Mares in Late Gestation: Four Tactics for Success

Pregnant mares require special nutritional attention to ensure the maintenance of their own health and body condition along with the proper growth of the developing fetus. Kentucky Equine Research promotes these four tactics for success in feeding the late stage pregnant broodmare.

Hay Alternatives

Hay Alternatives can come in very handy to supplement or complete your horse’s diet. But when are they necessary and how do you incorporate them into your feeding program?

The Hay Shed - What you need to know: Alfalfa vs Grass Hay

Most horse owners understand that horses are designed to be grazing animals. Which translates to in order for horses to maintain a healthy gut, small consumption amounts, available continuously throughout the day and night, are necessary.

Beat the Bugs

The first step in beating the bugs is using an insect control supplement. These supplements are designed to stop the life cycle of flies, thus reducing the population of house and stable flies in and around your barn.

Define a “Senior” Horse

We’ve all known 17-year-olds that were sporting the sway back, were crippled, could only eat feed and mashes formulated for the geriatric and/or were just basically rendered useless in regard to a job and so were living out their retirement as a pasture pet