Ground Plants
Horses are one of 3 groups of animals with similar digestive tracts in the world. Beside all equids (horses, asses and zebras), the other two are the…
Category: Nutrition Topics
Growing Horses
Foals at some point transition from nursing mother's milk to eating solid food. This is normal but sometimes some problems can occur.
Hay
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…
Honesty – A True Story
When the words of this man I met settle into your consciousness you will either be shocked or say that this is the problem with the world (and our hor…
Hormesis, Hay And Horses
Hormesis is the cellular process of resting which helps to clean up cellular debris, remove damaged cells and help the mitochondria switch their fuel …
Horse Hay – What Is It, Why Feed It, And How To Feed It – Rounds With Doc T
In this Rounds, Doc T discusses what kind of nutrition is in hay and why the makeup of today’s hay may be at the root of several illnesses and sound…
How Long Do I Need To Feed Soybean Meal To My Horses?
Soybean meal is a high quality protein for horses lacking it in their environment and from the chronic loss through auto-digestion in high sugar diets…
Jack And Kendra – A Calm Horse Is Found (testimony)
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"
Lectins
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…
Lectins
Lectins are plant proteins developed by plants to protect their seeds from being eaten and killed by animal digestion. They cause autoimmune disease, …
Mineral Deficiency In Horse Hay And Pasture
Minerals are elements necessary for life. Horses get their minerals from their environment. This discusses deficiencies, excesses and regulation of mi…
Minerals And Electrolytes
Minerals and electrolytes in horses are elements (atoms) that are NOT carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. They include the macro-minerals of calci…
No Grain Challenge
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…
No Sweat!
Horses living in climates with high temperatures and high humidity are often affected by anhidrosis (non-sweating). This is a highly effective cure th…
Nutrition
There are two things to be said about nutrition in horses. The first is to feed horses the way they were created to eat. The second is that no one…
Nutrition In Horses – HorseTalk Webinar
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…
Persephone’s Diary (testimony)
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…
Physiology
Knowing how nutrition works in the horse down to the cellular and molecular level is important. You may not think so or you may not feel capable of un…
Podcast #002 – Carbohydrate Dependency in Horses
What is carbohydrate (sugar) dependency in horses and how does it lead to chronic protein deficiency and insulin resistance? This is a fundamental que…
Podcast #003 – Cushing’s Disease In Horses
The pituitary is a small gland at the bottom of the brain that regulates so many hormones in the horse. Without it, the body of every mammal (horse an…
Podcast #005 – Should Your Horse Be Turned Out On The Spring Green Grass?
Every horse owner fears the green grass of spring if they have ever had a case of laminitis. In this episode I review an article written in a magazine…
Podcast #006 – The Calcium To Phosphorus Ratio
Calcium (Ca) and Phosphorus (P) are two of the most plentiful minerals in your horse and are required for bone structure, muscle function and hundreds…
Podcast #017 – Is Soybean Meal OK to feed horses?
This is a question asked on the FB group – If all seeds cause gut inflammation in horses and the core belief of this group is to go back to feeding …
Podcast #019 – The Role Of Oils In Horses
This podcast reviews what fatty acids are especially the saturated, MUFSA’s and PUFA’s. It also goes over where horses get their fat out in the …
Podcast #020 – How To Feed The Competing Horse
Most horses are used for strenuous competition and we would think that they need to be feed differently from retired horses that are in the field. Thi…
Podcast #021 – The EquiSummit Conference On The Healthy Horse Gut
I attended a conference called the EquiSummit produced by a major manufacturer of horse feed components and sponsored by the horse feed companies dedi…
Podcast #025 – Hormesis, Rapamycin and Horses
The pieces are coming together in human studies and these data are being found in all animals – and so I assume horses as well. To gain the healthy …
Podcast #027 – Protein In Horses
I explain what a protein is and the amino acids that make up all proteins. Then I describe the two reasons why horses are chronically deficient in pro…
Podcast #028 – How Is What You’re Doing Working For Your Horses?
Horse owners want to do the best for their horses either because of the large investment in their purchase and training / showing or because they are …
Podcast #031 – Molds, Mycotoxins And Soaking Horse Hay
Reducing the extra body fat on our horses is the best, if not the only, way to improve and eliminate metabolic syndrome. But is there a cost to their …
Podcast #037 – Horse Feeding And Nutrition – A Book Report
I just finished half of an old book on feeding the horse written by a professor of nutrition. It is called “Horse Feeding And Nutrition” by Tony C…
Podcast #045 – The Importance Of The Top Line In Horses
The top line of horses is the muscles along the back bone from the withers to the rump. It is where the saddle or load goes onto the horse. It is an i…
Podcast #048 – Horse Nutrition Review
Every day someone asks me about feeding their horses. For me it has become simple only because I have repeated this information but for you…. maybe …
Podcast #050 – Horse Seminar Summaries
I attended 3 equine seminars all with veterinarians discussing different matters: 1) “How Horses Think” put on by Cornell University (not the vet …
Podcast #051 – Horse Owners Experiencing An Infodemic
This will be a podcast where I vent my frustration in my attempts to help horse owners help their horses thrive in a human world. All I try to do is g…
Podcast #052 – Conflicting Information For Feeding Horses
My last podcast (#051) was about the infodemic we are experiencing in the horse world. This is where there is so much conflicting information about th…
Podcast #053 – Horses And The Road Less Traveled
Feeding our horses as they have for the past 30 years is the “well-worn path.” Insulin resistance, Cushing’s Disease, suspensory ligament diseas…
Podcast #054 – Entropy And Horses
Entropy means the natural and required decrease in energy, moving organized things into disorganized things and eventually ending in complete chaos. I…
Podcast #055 – Horses And The Web Of Influence
In this episode, I go through an email I received from Africa with a connection in the state of Washington here in America. Their results with laminit…
Podcast #057 – Protein and Gastric Ulcers In Horses
Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome, or EGUS, is being treated in more horses today than almost any other disease considered "routine." The advent of visual…
Podcast #059 – What Are We Feeding Our Horses, And Why?
Millions of scoops of grain are fed to our horses every day around the world, yet when I ask horse owners what they are feeding their horses, I usuall…
Podcast #061 – Weight Loss In Horses – Dental Or Not?
Many horse owners associate weight loss in horses with dental issues. The most common sign of a dental problem is “Quidding” or the formation of a…
Podcast #063 – Horse Microbiome, Dentistry, And More
In this podcast, I talk about a variety of subjects. Some I have discussed in detail elsewhere, and some are new. These subjects include the microbiom…
Podcast #064 – Accepting Fat Horses
As long as there isn’t an ice age, the thin horse will survive and thrive longer than the fat horse because the downside of excess body fat is the p…
Podcast #069 – Water For Horses
Water is one of the necessary ingredients to maintain life. Every animal and plant on Earth knows this, but because of the familiarity, we often don…
Podcast #071 – Review Of Feeding Horses
Over the past month, I have heard many great stories about how well the no-grain plus soybean meal diet works from my dentistry clients. However, they…
Podcast #076 – Feeding Sale Yearlings And All Horses
This podcast answers a question about the feeding of young, growing horses and their mothers sent to me by someone in Thoroughbred breeding and sales.…