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Creep Feeding Makes Sense for Foals

Specialized grain ration increases growth and minimizes weaning stress.
By Karen Briggs posted on April 1, 2009 | Posted in Nutrition
The studies have been done, the jury is in and the verdict is unanimous. If your footcare clients want their foals to achieve optimum growth, with the least risk of developmental orthopedic disorders like contracted tendons and physitis, they should "creep feed."
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Fueling High Performance

What’s the best way for your hoof-care clients to supply a horse with the energy he needs to do the work asked of him?
By Karen Briggs posted on March 1, 2009 | Posted in Nutrition
Farriers know that there are as many different types of sport horses out there as there are ways to shoe them. The demands that humans place on their animals vary dramatically, from the intense bursts of speed required of a barrel racer or polo pony, to the animated strut of a park-seat Morgan, to the sustained output of an endurance horse or a trail horse working in the Rockies.
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Feeding For Breeding

Here’s how your footcare clients can provide broodmares with the extra nutritional support needed when pregnant or nursing
By Karen Briggs posted on January 1, 2009 | Posted in Nutrition
A broodmare who is brooding may appear relaxed and contented on the outside as her midsection expands. But inside, her growing foal is making ever-increasing demands on her body, which will only dramatically increase after she gives birth.
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Briefings

January 1, 2009 | Posted in Clients, Nutrition

A team of researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland has determined that the population of a specific type of bacteria increases in the equine hindgut just prior to the onset of laminitis.


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Feeding for Frightful Weather

Equine nutritional needs change when the temperature drops. Here’s what your footcare clients need to know to weather winter successfully
By Karen Briggs posted on December 1, 2008 | Posted in Nutrition

Here it comes again, folks: Old Man Winter has targeted North America and he’s showing no mercy.


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How to Read the Feed Label

You may need to read between the lines on that feed label to correctly interpret the nutritional value of a feed for your hoof-care customers
By Karen Briggs posted on November 1, 2008 | Posted in Nutrition
For many horse owners, buying feed is more of a habit than an intellectual process.
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Farriers' Roundtable

July 1, 2008 | Posted in Nutrition

We know that basic malnutrition or shortage of nutrients can be one of the key factors of poor hoof growth. Certain specific nutrients can have a very high impact on how well a hoof grows.


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Fighting Founder Through Forage Control

Food management can be just as important as foot management
By Christy West posted on July 1, 2008 | Posted in Nutrition

But nutrition can have a huge impact on those feet and your work on them, especially when it comes to laminitis, and often owners just don’t know when their horse-feeding practices are contributing to the problem. You can win a lot of loyalty, and reduce your chances of working on foundered feet, by helping educate your clients about nutrition as it relates to foot health.


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Horses & H2O

Your clients may not think of water as a nutrient, but it’s the most essential dietary ingredient of all
By Karen Briggs posted on July 1, 2008 | Posted in Nutrition
After 48 hours without water, a horse may lose 6.8% of its bodyweight, which can reach to 9% within 72 hours. If summer heat is involved, a horse could lose 16% of its bodyweight in 3 days.
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