How can horses lose weight healthily? Find out why crash diets are harmful and how to achieve sustainable weight loss in horses.
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How can I tell if my horse is overweight? Discover why weight and BCS can be misleading and how to assess your horse’s condition correctly.
Read articleFeeding Senior Horses Properly: What Does an Older Horse Need?
Discover everything about proper feeding for senior horses: from hay pellets to herbs. Learn which are myths and what they truly need.
Read articleTemperature Management for Senior Horses: Essential Tips & Advice
How can you best support your senior horse’s temperature regulation? From choosing the right blanket to setting up the stable.
Read articleBrain Training for Senior Horses: Staying Mentally Fit in Old Age
How to Keep Your Senior Horse Mentally Fit with Brain Training and Clicker Work.These exercises stimulate and support mental activity.
Read articleSenior Mueslis: Vitamin Boost or Waste of Money?
What’s really in senior feeds for older horses? Why many products can be problematic – and which alternatives actually make sense.
Read articleAssessing the correct body condition in horses
Assessing a horse’s body condition is important — an imbalance can seriously compromise its health.
Read articleBringing a poor doer through the winter
How to help thin or old horses through the winter? There are countless tips, but what is useful to bring them into balance?
Read articleA foal from your own mare: super idea or super disaster?
Many people dream of breeding a foal from their own mare. But is this really always a good idea? What do I need to bear in mind?
Read articleFeeding young horses appropriately
What should be included in the equine-appropriate diet of yearlings and young horses? When does it make sense to add something - and what?
Read articleRoughage for growing horses
What should hay be like for my young horse? We explain what to look out for and the best way to feed hay.
Read articleAppropriate nutrition from birth to weaning
We explain what should be considered for the species-appropriate feeding of foals from birth to weaning.
Read articleA foal is as healthy as its mother’s gut
Here we explain how the intestinal gut flora of the mother influences the health and intestines of the young foal.
Read articlePasture and normal weight – is that possible?
Overweight in horses - First of all, it is completely normal for horses to put on weight in summer during the grazing season.
Read article10 tips for a good start in life
10 valuable tips to support the broodmare and young foal during the birthing phase.
Read articleAdlib hay – do horses get fat when fed hay freely (24/7)?
Many equestrians believe their horses wouldn't do well on adlib hay. We disagree! Here's all the benefits of 24/7 hay feeding.
Read articleYoung and old horses need a warmer coat
Winter coat shedding Different stages of life also significantly influence coat development, a factor often underestimated. Horses below 5 and over 20 years of age tend to begin shedding their winter coats earlier, develop thicker fur, and retain...
Read articleReduce weight – but healthily!
GeReduce weight - The number of overweight horses in our stables is increasing year by year. Get informed now!
Read article5 Tips for the feed management of ‘Good Doers’
Feed management - 5 tips to manage easy to feed horses appropriatley Get informed now!
Read articleGetting old horses fit into spring
How can old horses be supported to get fit into spring? Tips on feeding and coat change
Read articleSainfoin: a valuable hint, especially for poor doers
Supplementing the diet with sainfoin can offer significant support for heavy feeders, thanks to its protein profile and its ability to stabilize the intestines.
Read articleMy horse is too overweight and therefore not allowed out on grass
Prohibit pasture for overweight horses? Is this the right approach? Sanoanimal Horse Knowledge analyses the reasons and identifies the causes...►
Read articleWeight management in both directions is essential
Many horses come out of the grazing season a little “chubby”. At first, this is a completely normal process: the horses gain weight over the summer and lose it again in the winter. It is therefore not of any drama if the horse is now carrying around...
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