Horses and Equine Care Category Archive

Antioxidants in Horse Nutrition-Vitamin E

Most people have heard that anti-oxidants are important for health but few really know what they are or what they ...

By Tina Anderson, PhD Equine Specialist, Land O'Lakes, Inc. The term exertional rhabdomyolysis is the scientific description for tying-up, and ...

Some common practices in feeding suckling foals are to either rely totally on mare’s milk and pasture to meet ...

When a mare foals, her daily nutrient requirements increase significantly, nearly double that of early gestation. These nutrient needs must ...

Spring is just a couple months away, bringing warm sunny days, green grass and newborn foals, but, we must get ...

Title: HOW Meeting – Horse Owner’s Workshop Location: Ark Country Store, Waxahachie, TX Description: Mark you calendars now! Our Purina ...

Critical temperature is the temperature below which the animal must produce additional heat to maintain normal body temperature. Mature horses ...

Many horse owners believe that when the weather is cold, horses need to be fed rations containing more corn, because ...

Feeding your horse good quality hay is important during winter months when pasture grasses are short or are not growing. ...

by Karen E. Davison, Ph.D., Land O’Lakes Purina Feed Manager-Equine Tech. Services Record droughts or record rainfall, it ...