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, […]
If you are looking at your foal’s diet in FeedXL it is crucial you include mum’s milk. It is a goldmine of nutrients for your foal and must be taken into account. Forget the milk and you will end up overfeeding, which will then cause problems with growth that is too fast. OK you say, […]
Did you know that with your Standard or Premium plan, you can add your own hay with complete data to FeedXL? The easiest way to do this is to upload an Equi-Analytical XML forage analysis file and FeedXL will add all the data for you. Getting your forage tested To learn about Equi-Analytical and their […]
Have you ever got the results back from a pasture or hay analysis and been left scratching your head trying to figure out what the numbers mean? Frustrating isn’t it!? That is unless you have a tool (like FeedXL) to interpret the numbers for you. The analysis below shows the analysis result numbers a pasture, but they are […]
People love to disagree over the use of magnesium oxide for horses. Should we use it, shouldn’t we use it, is it bioavailable or not for horses? Is all magnesium oxide created equal? Part of this contention is due to the fact that magnesium oxide is a manufactured ingredient. It is cooked in a process […]
Do you have a horse that has water that runs out of the anus before, during or after he poos? This condition now has a name! Free Fecal Water, or FFW. And also, happily it now has some research behind what may cause it as well as a potential treatment. If it is something you […]
Anaerobic fungi live in our horses’ hindguts and they are responsible for an estimated 30-40% of the fibre fermentation that occurs there. As well as thinking about how diet might affect our horse’s hindgut bacterial populations, we also need to think about how it might affect their anaerobic fungal populations. The problem is that we […]
Dietary iron is thought by some to contribute to the incidence of laminitis in horses, with serum ferritin starting to be used as the measure of iron status. It is unclear if this is the case, but in reading human literature, it seems the relationship between serum ferritin and inflammation is a bit of a […]
