Even with cooler weather on the horizon, maintaining your horse's electrolyte level is still as important as ever. As discussed in one of our previous blog posts, “Keeping the Horse Replenished – Equine Electrolytes”, electrolytes are mineral salts that create the electrical current in the horse. In addition to creating the electrical current, electrolytes are necessary for a variety of biological processes, including:

• Muscular contraction

• Water balance

• Regular heartbeat

If electrolyte lev...
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As discussed in our blog post series on Feeding and Managing the Overweight Equine, obesity is becoming widespread among the equine population due to better quality nutritional products and pasture management and lack of exercise. Obesity can lead to a variety of unfortunate consequences, including Cushing’s disease and insulin resistance, which must then be treated for the entirety of the horse’s life.

Increasing the amount of exercise, closely monitoring forages and grazing times, and f...
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The topic of oil supplementation for the horse is a common discussion among horse owners. Often when you walk into someone’s feed room you may see bottles of corn oil, sunflower oil, or fish oil. What are these oils trying to accomplish? For some, it might be to improve coat quality or to help add weight, but the type of oil product that will be looked at today has another purpose – reducing inflammation and restoring balance to the equine diet.

OmegaTri oil is different from the o...
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Greetings and welcome to the Equine Nutrition and Health Services blog! This blog provides equine nutritional tips and advice, equine nutrition news, and product discussion. For those of you looking for equine nutrition information and advice, you are at the right place!

Today's post is going to center around a unique and novel product called Equitivia, an equine origin probiotic developed by Dr. Bill Bernard. If you are unfamiliar with equine probiotics, I would suggest reading this art...
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