Lectins Review ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Lectins are found in the outer coverings of seeds, fruits and leaves of all plants. Animals have adapted to these toxins in many ways. Horses have l…
Category: Nutrition Topics
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 12 of 12 – Summary ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The final installment of the series on feeding horses. Dig in deeper by enrolling in the Horsemanship Nutrition Course. Congratulations on reading all…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 11 of 12 – Lectins ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Lectins are plant proteins made to discourage animals from eating their seeds by making the animals sick. Insidious over years, they confuse the other…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 10 of 12 – Supplements ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Feeding supplements to horses fill a void in their nutrition. But are they necessary and effective? Are there guarantees to their quality or their qua…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 09 of 12 – GMO, Pesticides and Fertilizers ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
An objective discussion about feeding horses with GMO foods treated with pesticides and herbicides. Why to worry and why we should not worry.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 08 of 12 – The Importance of Protein ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Protein in the maintenance of horses is not appreciated. It is not complicated. Our training of feeding horses has ignored the importance.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 07 of 12 – The High Fat Diet ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Where do horses get their fat if all they eat is ground plants (pasture and hay)? The answer is from bacterial digestion of cellulose. Here are the de…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 06 of 12 – Carbohydrate Dependency ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Feeding sugar every day in excess of horse's needs creates a dependency no different than drugs and alcohol. This blog explains why.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 05 of 12 – Mitochondria and Making Energy ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Inside every car is an engine needing fuel and inside every cell of your horse are engines called mitochondria. They both need maintenance.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 04 of 12 – Gut Inflammation ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The digestive tract of the horse has a 1 cell thick lining with an army of defense cells behind it. Attacks on this cause the immune system to respond…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 03 of 12 – Gut Microbes ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
You are not feeding the horse but you are feeding the trillions of microbes within their gut and they, in turn, feed the cells of the horse. Happy gut…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 02 of 12 – The Basics of Sugar, Fat and Proteins ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The similarities and differences between sugar, fat and protein. It is essential to understanding how these interact in the health of horses.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 01 of 12 – Grazing Not Browsing ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
All equids graze ground plants. They avoid taller plants with more woody cellulose (lignin). Ruminants browse eating short and tall plants.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Introduction 2 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Complexicate - to complicate things to make people look more intelligent and feel more significant and usually agenda based. I decomplexicate horse fe…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Introduction 1 – Complexicate ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Horses are becoming too complicated to keep as I watch everyone try to better others as to why their theories are better. So I made a new word - compl…
Cheating On The No Grain Diet ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
I need to come clean with all of you. I have been cheating on the no grain diet. Please forgive me but I and Melissa have been put into an impossible…
Rhubarb Pie, The Orbiting Earth and Your Horse ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Our beliefs are based on what we've been taught by trusted sources. But is the knowledge we gain from mentors with no experience or with agendas reall…
Constantly At War ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
In every moment of life in our horses, there is a battle between the body and the invading organisms surrounding them. To win, the immune system needs…
Lectins ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Lectins are plant proteins developed by plants to protect their seeds from being eaten and killed by animal digestion. They cause autoimmune disease, …
Symbiosis And The Horse’s Gut ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Symbiosis is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms. Horses cannot live without the micro…
Doughnut Hole ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Our horses digestive tract is a tube running through the body. This is a fundamental principle to understand. The hole in the doughnut isn't part of t…
No Sweat! ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Horses living in climates with high temperatures and high humidity are often affected by anhidrosis (non-sweating). This is a highly effective cure th…
Why Horses Should Not Be Fed Grain ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Feeding horses grain is a new concept (about 100 years) relative to the time they have been kept by humans (4000 years) or their time living on Earth …
Starvation and Weight Loss ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Starvation and weight loss follow 3 possibilities: 1) lack of food, 2) inability to consume food and 3) inability to absorb food. The results are the …
Protein Bioavailability For Horses ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Protein bioavailability in horses is essential in understanding the difference between crude protein (what is listed on the label) versus the actual a…
Protein Sources For Horses ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Here is a table with various protein sources for horses. Not all inclusive, it shows commercial mixes available in the US along with the beneficial an…
Chronic Protein Deficiency In Horses – HorseTalk Webinar ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Chronic protein deficiency in horses is at the root cause of many injuries and illnesses I see in horses. This 2016 video presentation is from my Hors…
Chronic Protein Deficiency In Horses ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
An introduction to the biggest health issue in horses today. Due to modern feeding, horses are consuming their own protein PLUS they are being fed eno…
Sweating Again In 3 Days (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Sweating Again In 3 Days
Diarrhea Is Gone (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "The diarrhea is gone. Stopped by the end of the first day off grain."
Jack And Kendra – A Calm Horse Is Found (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. A video titled "Jack And Kendra – A Calm Horse Is Found"
Why Is My Horse Girthy? – HorseSense With Doc T ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This HorseSense™ 5 minute video describes the cause of grittiness in horses related to hind gut inflammation from inflammatory ingredients in horse …
Whinnie’s Gut Story (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "The liquid squirts completely disappeared after after about 4 weeks."
Nutrition In Horses – HorseTalk Webinar ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Feeding horses has been learned from someone in your past. But who taught them? And who taught them? Through the chain of teacher - student the infor…
Crimson Feather Farm Diary (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "Challenge complete. Juniper is more calm in hand. Noticed difference …
Barclay (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "He still has some Barcleyisms but is much more relaxed and calm."
Deeper Contact (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "No longer reactive ground work is really getting so much better. I fee…
What a difference grain makes! (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "The change in Houston’s attitude was miraculous. Within 2 days of re…
Report on James (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "after 7 days i noticed a significant change—his itching had decrease…
Persephone’s Diary (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "Day Fourteen 8/4: The 1st two weeks have gone by quickly & I’ve seen…
No Grain Challenge ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "She is so calm now even a novice rider can sit on her. We’ve even be…
Grain Based To Forage Based Diet (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. A video - "Grain Based To Forage Based Diet"
Beau and Renew Gold® (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "Taking this old horse off of grain caused him to lose weight so Renew …
Concentrate Feeds ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Concentrate rations are the opposite of forage for horses. They developed a while ago when people moved from the country farms to the industrialized …
Feed By Weight, Not Volume ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Horse owners feed by volume which most will call a “scoop.” This is irrational. If we all decided to pick one size for a “scoop,” would th…
Feeding Signs ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Feeding signs I have seen at horse farms.
Hay ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Hay is last summer’s grass. It is a new supplement and it could also be called the original supplement. The purpose of hay is to add calories to…
Body Condition Score ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The Henneke horse body condition score was published by a professor at Texas A&M University in 1983 and is named after him. He wanted to use a simple…
Minerals And Electrolytes ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Minerals and electrolytes in horses are elements (atoms) that are NOT carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. They include the macro-minerals of calci…
Supplements ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
I don’t believe in any supplement for horses unless there is a deficiency. With the exception of starvation, mineral and vitamin deficiencies are r…