Equine Nutrition Articles

There are so many things that I wish I could have learnt early on in my horse career that I have now learned as a practicing vet. 

Groundbreaking research out of the US shows that not only does physical stress (such as infection, inflammation, or trauma) activate the immune system but that psychological stress has the exact same impact.

Reviewing our horse's diet regularly can help prevent problems. Check your horses nutritional levels with changes of season, workload or location, or if you see changes in your horse - like spooky or hot behaviour, or the condition of their body topline, hooves or coats.  Here are 3 times to check your horses diet.

Horses have always been a big part of my life, and I had always been keen to feed my horses as natural as possible. But I had one particular horse that I was having ongoing troubles with.

Felicity Davies is an Australian Horsemanship & Mindset Mentor, who hosts the Equestrian Perspective Podcast. In this episode she speaks with our own Linda Goldspink-Lord; Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker and Director of Poseidon Animal Health.

In animal nutrition, zeolites can also be used as toxin binders. But their usefulness as a toxin binder extends only as far as binding mycotoxins like aflatoxin that are charged and able to be attracted and ‘trapped’ by the zeolite.

As horse owners we only want the best for them, yet owning and caring for a horse can be expensive. We've got 8 tips to help you feed your horse to meet all their nutritional needs, while being more economical. Find out how to reduce your feed bill without compromising gut health or optimal equine nutrition.

As we learn more about the importance of human gut health and the role it plays in our overall health and well-being, we are slowly turning our efforts to understanding the impact gut health has on our horses too.

That 30m tract of gut does so much more than digest food. It is responsible for your horse’s health and well-being as well! It keeps bad things out and good things in by having an intact gut wall protected by a mucosal lining, and when this defence mechanism isn’t working toxins, pathogens and harmful substances can enter through the gut wall and create havoc. This can lead to life threatening illnesses, poor performance, pain, behaviour change, weight-loss and whole gut inflammation (ouch).

By Dr Nikita Stibbard, BVetSci/VetBio (Hons). If you are having issues relating to your horse's gut health and overall nutrition, Winter is when you will most likely see it most! Here are the three most common equine gut health related problems I see as an equine veterinarian during winter, and how to help your horse.

Often, the first thing everyone will recommend for a horse with hot, unpredictable, spooky or fizzy behaviour is a toxin binder. Sometimes your horse may be reacting to grass toxins. But the culprit might actually be grass fructans, or an increased energy intake due to high energy pastures causing your horse to have an over-abundance of energy! We’ll help you identify the signs of these different influences on your horses behaviour, and explain how you can help them.

Prior to scoping a horse for ulcers, most veterinarians will request that horses need to be fasted for no less than 12 hours. Read on to learn more about why this occurs and what we can do to help.