ALL tissues are made of protein as are the enzymes which perform the trillions of chemical reactions going on every minute of the day that k

‘Grass-related’ edemas appear quickly and generally should resolve quite easily. Swellings called ‘Edemas’, are due to fluid becoming trapped within various tissues.

The moral of the story is if all is well with your horse then no need to change anything but when horses have 'issues' lucerne is the first thing to eliminate!

"I had loosely followed the CHH feeding regime with my horses for many years after having a horse that developed a head flick...

When we point out aspects of lucerne/alfalfa that can adversely affect horses it becomes obvious there are two camps! There are people...

Did you know that when you get forage analysed it has a Dry Matter (DM) Content? This is what is left after water is removed. DM is fundamentally the FIBRE content.

As with any feed item, it is not the item itself that is the problem – the overriding issues with lucerne/alfalfa stem from the fact...

Nitrates affect mono-gastric animals like horses DIFFERENTLY to ruminants. In ruminants the Nitrates are rapidly converted to Nitrites which cause oxygen starvation and sudden death.

HOW the individual horse is affected depends on the interplay between the changes in nutrient composition of the grass over the previous few days and the nutritional/metabolic status of the individual horse at the time...

For serious issues like laminitis, head-shaking/flicking our advice would be NOT to let him back out on ANY green vegetative grass. ‘Keeping an eye on them’ is a very risky strategy.

Sodium has several major roles including that of delivering nutrients into cells also for ridding the body of nitrates.

People talk about ‘triggers’ - sensitivity to certain feeds, bright sunny days, pollens, moths/bugs flying up, etc as though they are the cause of various issues - a classic very common one is a sensitivity to flies/insects to where the horse is driven mad by them...

Unsuitable pasture will cause metabolic (health, movement and/or behaviour) issues in any horse.

IF you are thinking about resowing your pastures, thoroughly consider the following information because it is not as simple as it seems and will not be the solution to all your problems because even ‘Horse Friendly’ grasses need to be at a mature stage of growth before grazing.

Red clover can cause 'stallion-like' behaviour in geldings. The first line of thinking when such behaviour shows up is that the horse hasn't been gelded properly.

There have been several cases lately where people have sold horses to good people who have experienced an immediate change in the horse...

The iron content of the horse’s diet has become a subject of great concern but Does EVERYBODY need to worry?

Because excess iron cannot be excreted, there is concern that many horses suffer from iron over-load.

Often people tend to put ‘little things’ down to the horse’s temperament, him being ‘quirky’, or think ‘it is just the way he IS’,...

Do you hear yourself saying any of the following… ‘He’s always been like this’ Yes but that doesn’t mean it is his true self, it means,...