The gut health of our equines plays a significant role in determining how healthy or unhealthy our horses will be. The equine digestive tract is a large and relatively complex system. Your horse’s health depends on how well you look after this digestive system and importantly, how well the microbial population within it remains “balanced”. […]
Horse Diets Made Simple: Build a Balanced Diet for Your Horse Do you want to build a balanced 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 […]
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 to do is take a look at a […]
How to Enter Diet Info into FeedXL 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 […]
Stress – did you know how it affects your horse’s gut health, and that it can do so in pretty dramatic ways? Professor John Pluske presented a talk at an animal nutrition conference looking at the effect of stress on weanling pigs and, believe it or not, we can learn a lot about the effects […]
Do you know about the relationship between retained placenta and selenium deficiency in horses? Retained placenta is more than just bad luck, and a lot of it comes down to one little mineral – selenium. The cattle industry agrees. Professor Michael Lee of the University of Bristol spoke about selenium at an animal nutrition conference […]
The connection between nutrition and healthy hooves Does your horse have hooves like this? This is the hoof of 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 be contributing. Her body condition was […]
In FeedXL you may notice that some feed ingredients do not have complete 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 what this means, how to see which nutrients are ‘missing’, and what to […]
The connection between starch and ulcers in horses 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 […]
Don’t give a horse on ulcer treatment free choice hay You’re probably thinking… What?!?! We know! And we 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 […]
