Do you want to build a diet for your horse the easy way in FeedXL? This post will walk you through the 4 simple steps to follow to make your life a little easier, and your feeding regime simpler! Step 1: Enter ALL Forage First enter ALL of your forage; including pasture, hay, haylage, chaff, […]
When using FeedXL you need to remember it is a tool designed to help you assess your horse’s diet. It is really important you look to see if what FeedXL is telling you matches what your horse is telling you from body fatness perspective. The first thing I ALWAYS do is take a look at […]
Are you ready to start using FeedXL to build a balanced diet for your horse? Entering accurate information on your horse and what you are actually feeding is so important for making sure the diets you get out are accurate. Here are the most important things you need to get right! Bodyweight Your horse’s bodyweight […]
Stress! Did you know stress affects the gut? In pretty dramatic ways! Prof John Pluske presented a talk at this weeks animal nutrition conference looking at the effect of stress on weanling pigs. Here are some photos from his presentation: Pigs have a very similar gastrointestinal tract to horses so I often look at pig […]
Retained placenta… bad luck? Or is there more to it? I am going to say there is definitely more to it. And if you look to the cattle industry they agree. And a lot of it comes down to one little mineral… SELENIUM! I was recently at an Animal Nutrition conference at the University of […]
Does your horse have hooves like this? This is the hoof of a horse I rode in some of my travels this year. She was a mare maintained on a pasture and hay only diet. And it shows. This hoof is screaming deficiency… probably mainly of copper and zinc. But amino acid deficiency may also […]
There are so many things that can affect your horse’s behaviour. One of the big ones I talked about in my ebook ‘My Horse is Lazy, My Horse is Crazy’ is pain! When your horse is in pain, his behaviour will change. And it may become anxious and difficult, or it may be that your […]
In FeedXL you may notice that feed ingredients are shown as having ‘Partial Data’. This means that this feed ingredient’s label provided by the manufacturing company does not contain information for all of the nutrients examined by FeedXL. Keep reading to learn why you’re seeing ‘Partial Data’, how to see which nutrients are ‘missing’, and […]
You may have heard it recommended that horses with ulcers should be fed a ‘grain-free’, low starch diet. It is believed that any starch may make ulcers worse. Or stop them from healing when the horse is being medicated to resolve ulcers. But is there any scientific basis for what has now become a popular […]
Don’t give a horse on ulcer treatment free choice hay. You’re probably thinking… What?!?! I know! I agree… this sounds CRAZY! And goes against everything you might think is going to help a horse with ulcers. If you have had a horse you have treated, unsuccessfully, for ulcers, keep reading! Because here is the thing… […]
