Winter Feeding Easy Keeper and Hard Keeper Horses
Winter seems so far away, but it is just around the corner. Are you ready? Is your horse ready? In the next couple of months, understanding “Lower Critical Temperature (LCT)” will be important for caring and feeding your horse(s) properly. LCT is the temperature below which metabolic heat production must be increased to maintain body temperature. For mature horses, their LCT will fall around 5°F...
Feeding Goats: What you need to know about forages and winter
Goats are ruminant animals who eat plants and digest them through a four-compartment stomach. They are more like deer regarding nutrition, than they are to sheep or cattle, which eat a lot of grass. Goats are well-known for their ability to forage on anything from fresh grass to woody shrubs. They are browsers versus grazers (for example, cattle, sheep, and horses are grazing species). For this...
How to Safely Put Weight on a Starved Horse
Have you ever taken in a horse that has been starved? A truly starved horse – not one that’s just a bit underweight, but one that’s significantly underweight – requires a specialized and careful nutritional approach in order to regain both weight and health. If you, or someone you know, ever decide to take on a starved horse, be sure that you’re familiar with the information below. Refeeding...
Must-Know Proper Forage Storage Tips
Forage is the foundation of your horse’s diet, meaning that you need to be able to safely store large volumes of it throughout the year. As this year’s forage is harvested, you’re likely filling your barn with bales in order to stock up. But proper storage methods are important, since they can help to keep the forage in good, feedable condition, and may even play a role in reducing the risk of a...
Prevent Overheating in Horses Using Nutrition
To understand how to use nutrition to prevent overheating in horses we must first understand fully how the digestive system works and creates heat. We will skip past the stomach and small intestine as very little to no heat is created here from digestion, and start at the beginning of the large intestine of the horse. In horses, the large intestine begins with the cecum; adjoining the cecum is the...
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