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Equine Muscles - Use It or Lose It

Summer is well and truly here. And with it, plenty of time to ride. A nice gentle trail ride is always pleasant on a long summer day, but are you really...

Dietary strategies to achieve weight loss

In the last two newsletters, we discussed reasons why free choice strategies don’t work for every horse and the hormonal instances that support this. Today’s newsletter discusses some of the strategies to help...

Hormonal influences on horse's weight

In the last newsletter, we discussed some of the reasons why free choice strategies don’t work for every horse. This newsletter discusses some of the hormonal instances that support this. Weight control is determined...

Fat Horse on Free Choice?

You’ve read all the articles about having food in front of your horse at all times. You’ve read about allowing the horse to eat as much as they want and...

Liver Detox?

  The liver’s main functions are detoxification and to filter pathogens from the bloodstream.  From time to time, the liver is overwhelmed, resulting in elevated liver enzymes and/or liver failure....

Insect Bite Hypersensitivity

The flies are out again and it seems to be a bad fly season. Even worse, your horse’s reaction is worse than you’ve ever seen it. Instead of little bumps...