Blog posts tagged with 'horses'

Strengthening your horse’s topline is crucial for maintaining optimal condition, supporting flexibility, and promoting long-term health. Balanced nutrition and targeted exercises can help build and maintain a strong topline in horses.

During winter, with dark nights and cold, icy, or snowy weather, keeping your horse fit and entertained through ridden work can be a challenge. So, here's our reminder to not forget about groundwork - it’s a versatile and effective tool to keep your horse engaged and active even in the toughest conditions!

Does your horse have a winter cough? Our Registered Nutritionist discusses why your horse may be coughing this winter, and ways to manage it.

Firework celebrations often negatively impact animals and cause stress for owners. They are generally associated with loud bangs, sudden beams of light and burning smells, all of which can cause fear, distress and trigger the flight-or-fight responses in horses, dogs and many other animal species.

Autumn and winter months bring cold and wet weather to the UK which means management and routine changes for our horses. With the temperatures dropping, worries about how to keep horses warm and how to prevent unwanted weight loss start to creep in.

Dr. Stephanie Wood explains how the Feedmark team create your horse's Bespoke All-In-One™ to make a truly personalised formulation.

Feedmark's Director of Science and Nutrition, Dr. Stephanie Wood, takes a look prohibited substances and how we can reduce the risk of our horses consuming them.

Dr. Stephanie Wood discusses Pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) and the effects on equids.

Rebecca Allan, Feedmark’s Assistant Nutritionist, explores the different toxins that can be found in plants commonly found in grazing or forage, and discusses the consequences of their consumption on the horse’s health.

Discover the causes, symptoms, and management strategies for Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS). Learn how to care for horses with EMS and reduce the risk of complications like laminitis.

Feedmark's Assistant Nutritionist, Rebecca Allan, looks at the cause, diagnosis and treatment of sweet itch, a common seasonal allergic condition that affects a wide range of horses and ponies.

Horses are seasonal breeders and the breeding season for horses in the northern hemisphere generally lasts from April to October. Anouk Frieling, MSc Equine Sciences, BSc (Hons), discusses the nutrition of the stallion...