The festive season, being perhaps the most expensive time of the year, may have you asking yourself if everything you're adding into your feed bowl is really necessary? It's a sensible question to ask at the best of times and the answer can vary.
Equine Pastern Dermatitis, more commonly referred to as mud fever or mud rash, is a non-contagious skin condition affecting the lower limbs of horses, particularly those with white legs/pink skin or thin-skinned breeds such as Thoroughbreds.
Due to the high lignin content, straw is not very absorbent. Feeding straw to horses may lead to impaction colic and its coarse nature has been associated with an increased risk of gastric ulcers in horses.
Mallenders and Sallenders is an unfortunate and incurable skin condition affecting the skin at the backs of the knees and the front of the hocks causing scaling, crusting and scabbing.
The UK has an aging poplation of horses, wIth over one third of the UK horse population considered veteran. The average age of a horse in the UK is 14 years
What do horses eat? Well, we know they eat a lot! Ideally, they will eat for up to 16 hours a day, grazing on high fibre forage, walking slowly as they do so. This is fine if they have free range on the right sort of pasture but when it com
When the temperature decreases horses need more calories to keep warm so it is important to ensure our horses have enough food to sustain them.
When the weather turns cold, horses are less inclined to drink and coupled with sudden changes in management, such as more time spent stabled or eating more hay, this can increase the risk of impaction colic.
Many of us have seen hard frosts this morning and snow may even be on the cards for some parts of the country later this week. This has the potential to increase the risk of laminitis.
Itchiness can be caused by a variety of factors; some within our control such as those affected by diet or management and some beyond our control i.e. environmental factors such as the weather or pollens.
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