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TheHorse.com en Español: Alimentando Para Competencia
Many of our customers are feeding high performance horses. This is a good article about the challenges of feeding a proper diet for the best performance. TheHorse.com en Español: Alimentando Para Competencia.
Su-Per® APPETITE
A highly palatable cherry-flavored supplement with a corn syrup base. For horses that are off feed, have a poor appetite, or are picky eaters.
Beware of GI Disease In Foals
The first few weeks of a foal’s life can be the highest risk period in the life of a horse. There are several gastrointestinal disorders that can quickly drain the health of your foal and cause failure to thrive.
Free Choice Water For Horses
A variety of "old horsemen's tales" once advised withholding water from horses under particular circumstances. For example, many people still adhere to the notion that offering cold water to a hot, sweating horse will cause colic.
Horse Feeding Pitfalls: Lack of Salt
In our continuing series regarding horse feeding pitfalls, we now turn to the need for salt in the equine diet.
Horse Feeding Pitfalls: Overloading Nutrients
One common mistake is adding supplements to the horse's diet without first checking to see if the ration is already overloaded with any specific nutrients.
Horse Feeding Pitfalls: Wrong Feed
In any catalog or feed store today you'll find a variety of bagged feeds labeled for specific types of horses--growing youngsters, hardworking adults, broodmares, senior citizens, etc. All are formulated to provide the exact amount of calories and nutrition those animals need, and giving the wrong feed to the wrong...
Horse Feeding Pitfalls: Feed Amounts
If you are feeding by volume rather than weight you may be over or under feeding.
Poultry Feeding By Stages
For more than 100 years Purina Mills has been helping people raise poultry. In fact, poultry feeds were among the very first products we sold. For fresh eggs to farm-raised chickens, you can count on Purina to provide products that will help ensure the health and well-being of your flock....