Advertorial. In order to get maximum performance from your horse you have to understand where its energy comes from and how it is generated. The most common approach is to feed high energy products in the belief that these will naturally translate to better performance. This is intuitive and in most cases does help but it’s not the answer. The way to dramatically improve your … [Read more...]

Cold, dark months with muddy winter fields, short days and endless mucking out can test even the most dedicated horse owner’s commitment but getting your winter feeding right can ease some of your worries, say the nutrition experts at SPILLERS®. Nutrition is the foundation for good health and performance. It can also affect behaviour, which can be more challenging over the … [Read more...]

by Dr Tamsin Young, Wrexham Glyndwr University. As the seasons change our attention begins to focus on the onset of winter.  For many of us that means restricted turn out for our horses, and for some stabling 24/7. Longer durations spent stabled limits horses’ opportunities to express instinctive behaviours. These include social interaction with other horses, restricted … [Read more...]

Hairy horse time again, and just when you go to fire up the clippers after a summer of little use, there is nothing more frustrating to find they don’t work, or are making funny noises. Worse still, if they stop midway through a clip, or the blades appear to start chewing the coat for no apparent reason, leaving a horse partly clipped or looking rather moth eaten. Whilst we … [Read more...]

Here Dr Tom Shurlock of British Horse Feeds gives some advice on winter forage and feeding… Every year we write about the best way to prepare for winter and what to feed alongside our preserved forage to maintain condition, engage in environmental enrichment and any number of other topics. What we tend to ignore is grass. Where it is likely that our horses are stabled and fed … [Read more...]