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Trade Zone: Feeding to Perform

Trade Zone: Feeding to Perform

March 18, 2012 - A high-performance horse is an athlete at the top of his game.

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 Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Trade Zone: Baby Boot Camp-Prepping Yearlings

Trade Zone: Baby Boot Camp-Prepping Yearlings

Anyone who's watched scruffy, awkward weanlings playing in a pasture may wonder how they ever turn out to be the pristine, polished yearlings seen heading to sales rings across the country.

 Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Good Prenatal Nutrition Important for Healthy Foals

What you feed your mare is important to the health of her foal.

 Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Hay Cubes Have Benefits, Dangers

Hay cubes are favored by many trainers of Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses because they tend to be highly digestible and less "bulky" in the gut than long-stemmed hay. But that very digestibility -- the ease and speed with which they are chewed and swallowed -- can be a potential problem.

 Wednesday, January 03, 2001

Fructan

Recent research in Great Britain on grass founder is providing new strategies that might help prevent laminitis.

 Wednesday, July 19, 2000