Make salt a higher priority than electrolytes By Juliet M. Getty, Ph.D. Your horse sweats more during the summer, making electrolyte supplementation worth considering. But electrolytes alone will not protect against dehydration. Your horse needs to have enough sodium (salt). One ounce per day (two tablespoons) is adequate for … Read More
Knowing the Symptoms and Risk Factors Could Save Your Horse by Dave Sauter, DVM Colic simply refers to abdominal pain. Horses seem to have more problems with colic than any other domesticated animal; it is the leading cause of death over any other equine disease. One study found an … Read More
“Plan Your Training Program to Reduce the Risk of Injury” by Jackie Bellamy-Zions The sun is shining, birds are singing, flowers are blooming and the temptation is to launch full-on into your horse training endeavors. You may have kept fit throughout the winter on the ski slopes or at … Read More
When do you order hay? It’s a feeling like money in the bank to have hay for the whole rest of the year! I thought I may have miscalculated my hay order from last year–but would you believe I had exactly 4 bales left before the first cutting was ready … Read More
By Juliet M. Getty, Ph.D. Are you tempted to cut your grass, then rake it into soft, fragrant, tasty piles of clippings for your horse to nibble? According to equine nutrition expert Dr. Juliet Getty this should be the last thing you encourage your horse to eat. It has to … Read More
A newly formulated website brings opportunity for Arenus to talk directly to the horse community they help daily. Fort Collins, Colorado, June 20, 2016 – With the launch of their new website, Arenus, the leader in equine health, has spring boarded their company blog. Differentiating themselves from other run-of-the-mill … Read More
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 — Summer has arrived! Temperatures are up, sweat is dripping, and insects are swarming all over. While the warm weather offers great opportunities to work with your horse, it also brings certain horse-care challenges. Consider the following summertime horse-management tips from the equine nutrition experts at … Read More
#1 Keep your horse bug-free After the cold months, where horses have the most hair, it is common for “hitchhikers” to be found on the bare skin and inside the ears (ticks, lice, etc.). Body clipping reveals these pests under all the winter hair, and they can be treated or … Read More
The Beginning of a Barefoot Journey by Karen Pickering I just came in from a fantastic ride on April. She has been barefoot since mid-April and quite lame. Diagnosed in 2009 with Navicular, she’s been in shoes year round. Her soles were paper-thin and she was struggling to walk on … Read More
With a well-planned training program The sun is shining, birds are singing, flowers are blooming and the temptation is to launch full-on into your horse-training endeavours. You may have kept fit throughout the winter on the ski slopes or at the gym but what about your horse? Unless you … Read More
