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Spring Must-Haves For Your Farm And Garden!

Spring into the season with our latest newsletter—featuring everything you need for a thriving garden and happy, well-fed animals! Read it here!

Guiding Your Equine Companion through Spring's Transition: A Seasonal Shift for Horse Owner

As winter's chill gives way to the warmth of spring, horse owners eagerly anticipate the shift in seasons. However, this change also brings about adjustments in equine care routines. Navigating the transition from winter to spring is crucial for maintaining the health and happiness of our beloved...

Horse Dental Care

A horse's teeth change throughout its life and proper dental care is essential for your horse to be comfortable feeding, grazing and carrying a bit. But what types of problems can develop, and how should they be taken care of? Does Your Horse Have Tooth Problems? A horse has from 36-44 teeth, and...

Discover Winter Essentials for Your Home and Animals!

Warm up your season with our January Newsletter—packed with must-haves to keep you and your animals cozy and prepared this winter. Read it here!

Spring Grazing: Top Tips for Nourishing Your Horse as Seasons Change

As winter bids farewell and the vibrant hues of spring unfold, horse owners embark on a crucial transition in their equine care routines. Spring is a season of renewal and growth, and ensuring your horse receives the right nutrition during this period is essential for their health and vitality. In...

Storm Preparation Tips for Horse & Cattle Owners

Properly caring for horses or livestock during a threatening storm requires careful planning and preparation. No one is immune to disaster and that’s why we implement strategies and plans to overcome dangerous weather. No matter what the disaster may be, it never hurts to be prepared. This is...

Refeeding Starved Horses

A horse may lose body weight and condition for many reasons. No matter the cause of the animal’s extreme weight loss, however, refeeding starved horses requires careful dietary management and conscientious nutritional awareness to help the horse regain weight safely and effectively. Why Horses May...

Is Your Horse Stressed Out?

Every animal can experience stress and may react to different stressors in different ways. Understanding if your horse is stressed out can help you calm the animal for a more comfortable, healthier life and an easier relationship between you and your equine partner. What Causes Stress for a Horse...

The Consequences of Vitamin E Deficiency in Horses

Vitamin E is an essential part of a horse’s diet, and lacking vitamin E can lead to dire health consequences. By understanding vitamin E, where it is found, and how to safely supplement a horse’s diet with adequate vitamin E, you can help your horse healthy and avoid the consequences of vitamin E...

The Importance of Extra Hay During Winter Months

It is true that during the winter months riding your horse can become a scarce occasion. This means that your horse’s diet must also change. Since the horse is not as active during these cold months, it requires fewer calories. It was once believed that feeding your horse more corn during these...

The Importance of Fats in Horse Nutrition

It is well known even to non-horse people that horses are herbivores, but just grazing or feeding a horse a diet of hay alone will not provide them the proper nutrition. A limited amount of fat is essential for more energy, and there are many additional benefits of providing fat in your horse's...

How to Use Complete Feeds to Stretch Your Hay Supply

Fiery blazes, drought, and poor growing conditions have made hay difficult to find and expensive to buy in many locations throughout the nation. These conditions have left horse owners with the difficult task of finding an affordable source of quality hay for their horses. Poor quality hay and...

Clean, Fresh Ways to Provide Water for your Horses During the Hot Summer Months

Horses are considered some of the finest animals known to man. Like any animal, during the hot summer months, horses need fresh, clean water to stay hydrated and healthy.Every horse is unique to its own. Therefore, the needs of your horse will differ from the needs of other horses. Play close...

Tips To Prevent Barn Flies

With summertime in full swing, it means there are longer days and more time you can spend outside with your barn animals. However, summertime and warm weather also means that flies begin to reproduce and will start tormenting your livestock. Follow these tips to fight back and prevent barn flies...

Help Us Give Rescue Horses a Second Chance

There are close to 200,000 horses in need of care and shelter. That’s why Purina sponsors A Home for Every Horse — a program to help find homes for horses in need. Through this sponsorship, we supply participating rescue shelters with the high-quality nutrition developed by the Ph.D. Equine...

What to Do If Your Horse Has Parasites

It is common that a horse has parasites, and treatment is routinely needed throughout the horse’s lifetime.• Precautions to Reduce Parasites: Some precautions to reduce parasites include removing manure from the horses stall. Sometimes the parasites are evident just by looking at the manure. Manure...

Ideas for Decreasing Heat Stress in Horses

As summer drags on, heat can become a serious problem for many horses. The primary way horses cool themselves is through sweating. While the exact mechanisms for inducing sweat production in horses are not yet fully understood, some experts believe that prolonged, consistently high sweat rates can...

Can You Recognize the Signs of Dehydration in Animals?

Animals cannot tell their owners when they are thirsty, and recognizing the signs of dehydration in different animals is crucial for pet owners, farmers and livestock handlers to ensure the animals are properly hydrated to stay healthy, particularly during hot summer months. Many animals show...

Winter Care for Horses

Cold weather presents horses with some specific nutritional and management demands. As winter approaches it is a good idea to evaluate your horses housing and feeding programs to insure that they get through the cold weather in good shape. All warm-blooded animals have a critical temperature. This...

Refeeding the Malnourished Horse

Starved horses can be a product of owner ignorance or economic hardship. Regardless of the reason, a horse may end up in a debilitated state. The goal for the new caretaker is to help the horse return to good health and appropriate body weight as quickly and safely as possible. For responsible...

Formulating Horse Feeds

When choosing a horse feed, looking at the guaranteed analysis can help you determine if the nutrition content of that feed is appropriate for the age and activity level of your horse. You would think that two products both contain 14% protein, 6% fat, etc. would be pretty much the same feed....

The Importance of Feed over Forage in Horse Diets

Horses evolved over millions of years as grazers, roaming around selecting the best forages they could find. While they did eat seeds growing on those plants, they did not take in large quantities of seeds or grain at a single meal. So, why do we feed horses grain at all? Throughout history, horses...

Protection and Support for Optimal Joint Health

Daily exercise and the rigors of competition are some of the most common causes of joint injuries in horses, injuries which can lead to a considerable amount of lost training time. While a horse’s body has a tremendous capacity for repair, it is not uncommon for damage to exceed this capacity. In...

Plants that are Poisonous to Horses

There are literally hundreds of plants that are either outright, or potentially, toxic to horses. There are several factors that contribute to toxicity. First, the plant must contain a substance that is toxic to that particular species of animal (susceptibility). Secondly, the amount of plant (and...

Horses and Astronauts: The Effects of Inactivity on Bone Strength and General Well Being

What do horses and astronauts have in common? Early in the space program astronauts were found to have significant loss of musculoskeletal strength and other health issues after spending time in space. Horses kept in confinement for extended periods have been found to have similar problems, with...