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 […]
Free Choice Hay & FeedXL: a perfect match So, your horse gets free choice hay – that’s great! Plenty of forage is a great start to your horse’s diet. But how do you know exactly how much of that free choice hay he eats? While this might seem tricky to estimate, FeedXL makes it easy […]
Are your soybean hulls safe? Because some of them definitely are NOT! Soybean is a great ingredient in a horse’s diet. The protein is amazing and year in, year out we feed it to horses with stunning results in muscle, bone quality and milk production. BUT… it MUST, MUST, MUST be heat treated correctly to […]
A: No. And in fact, it would be impossible to create a diet that had every nutrient in FeedXL exactly at 100% of your horse’s requirements. Q. So if not 100%, where should the nutrient levels be sitting? And what is normal? Because some of the amounts on this graph look really high?! Isn’t that […]
Pasture or hay is all a horse needs! Or is it? This is something we often hear… and 99% of the time it is WRONG! Forages are (almost) always too low in trace minerals to meet a horse’s requirements and leaving them un-supplemented on forage only diets usually results in problems with their hooves, joints, […]
