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, […]
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 Foundation or Premium plan, you can add your own hay with complete data to FeedXL? The easiest way to do this is to upload an XML forage analysis file (from Equi-Analytical or Feed Central) and FeedXL will add all the data for you. Getting your forage tested Visit Equi-Analytical […]
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 […]
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 […]
