Butyrate helps maintain a healthy gut barrier and is the main energy source for cells lining the digestive tract. Research has shown that these benefits are observed regardless of whether the beet ...
It’s easy to dismiss dehydration in horses as being something to worry about only on hot and sunny summer days — but this is not correct? Dehydration is in fact a serious threat in winter too, and ...
When possible, hay should make up a large portion of a horse’s diet. Most mature horses should be fed 1.5 to 2.5 percent of their body weight in forages daily. Long stem forage, such as hay, is ...
Hay is high in fiber and bulk, which supports the horse’s digestive tract. Nutrition content can be similar to the current year’s hay with the exception of vitamins (especially A and E), which ...