Weather and elements can damage barns.  So can horses.  These images will show some of these.  Protective trim may help against horses that chew.  A better structure will help against snow loads.  Plan ahead to…

I have one image and a video of one type of electric floor sweeper. I keep missing the opportunity to view and capture images of the others. In my barns floor sweepers have always been humans with brooms…

Ulcers In Horses

Leaky Gut Syndrome In Horses

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…