tsagent It is naturally assumed that, as your horse grows older, it will put on or lose weight, it will need a specialist diet to maintain condition and at the same time you will need to modify its feeding regime as activity declines, and the form of its feed as teeth will increasingly become a problem. Horses have …
Bran Free. High Fiber. Low Sugar If your horse’s sweet tooth is getting out of control, or if you are looking for a healthy holiday treat for your barn mates, look no further. Emerald Valley Mashes are low in sugar and starch to keep even the naughtiest little pony nice til Santa arrives. A healthy …
Feeding a low sugar, high fibre diet is correct, but why? The problem is not sugar. Fibre is made up of sugar. Sugars are converted to glucose, the single most important energy provider in any species. Malfunction of this biochemical pathway – IR, EMS Cushings – do cause problems, even laminitis, but the same philosophy …
Have you ever wondered how and why a horse gets so hot doing something that appears to be so effortless? To gallop, jump, piaffe… for a horse to simply move forward, he converts food substrates into energy fuel that drives the muscle. In the process heat is released as a by-product of this metabolic conversion. …
All riders put their tack through loads of abuse… the mud and dirt and sweat, let alone horse slobber on any given day can take the life out of leather. While you may not have the time to give your tack a thorough cleaning after each ride, there are some simple things you can do …
With the rains of Aprils giving way to warmer days for May (color me hopeful), things are beginning to bloom. And with the sweet scents of spring come the very real side effects of allergies. If you suffer from itchy eyes, a runny nose and an overall fogginess in the brain, imagine what the pollen …
Dr. Tom Shurlock has been a member of the Emerald Valley Team since 2003. Dr. Tom started working for British Horse Feeds in 1997. Armed with a BSc in Agricultural Biochemistry & Nutrition, and also a PhD in Animal Physiology & Nutrition, it was very clear from the get go, researching new developments in horse …