It is not necessary to feed a fat source or supplement to horses. The reason for this is based on understanding what a fat is and where the horse gets fat in a field of grass.

Carbohydrate is a word that describes sugar.  Other words include saccharide, monosaccharide, disaccharide, polysaccharide, glycogen, starch, cellulose, soluble fiber, non-soluble fiber, structural…

There are about 35,000 DIFFERENT proteins in every cell of our bodies and about 1 to 3 BILLION total proteins in each cell. Protein is important.

Most treats fed to horses are not only filled with inflammatory ingredients but are fed for the wrong reason.

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 tapir and the rhinoceros.

The Top Line Score came out in other animals, primarily meat animals (hogs, cattle), as a way to determine how much meat was on the hoof. And ultrasound machine would be scanned over the backs of hogs and…

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 remembers how they were created to eat.

Ask yourself this. …

Every now and then I see a “bad idea” with good intentions on a horse farm.  Usually the idea springs from the mind wanting an easier way of doing something.  However not much thought is put into the idea…

This subject is important as it could be called financial loss prevention or pain and suffering prevention (same with disease prevention).

Injury prevention is sometimes impossible because no matter how hard…

I love the word “entropy” because it applies to everyone and everything in the horse world as well as the whole world.  It means a gradual decline from order to disorder.  It applies to horse farms and horse…

This subject is important as it could be called financial loss prevention or pain and suffering prevention.  

Prevention of disease boils down into two categories.  Primary prevention includes vaccination, good…

Medicating horses has become easy in an age where pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are abundant.  Unfortunately their use circumvents two things.  The first is the removal of the cause of the problem they are…

Pastures are shrinking and the number of horses per pasture are increasing.  This leads to a sanitation problem where horses are eating where they defecate.  Rather than resolve the sanitation, medicines were…

On occasion a horse can be seen with patches of hair that are longer or shorter than the rest of the body.

The colors, patterns and markings of horses are based on genetics both determined and at random. When speaking of a horse color it is best to use the genetic definition.  Unfortunately breed organizations…