As the season changes from summer to fall and fall and winter it is important to look at the feeding plan for your horse and adjust it accordingly to activity level, age, and health status.

Amino Acids are the building blocks of protein and are critical to the health of your horse in many ways from repair and recovery of muscle and tissue to fuel for cell synthesis.

One amino acid, L-Glutamine has been shown to provide benefits to the digestive system by rebuilding and repairing tissue and reducing immune response inflammation in the digestive system. L-Glutamine is one of the amino acids that is made by the body but there are times such as stress, illness and intense training where your horse will require extra L-Glutamine supplementation.

Salt comes in many forms for your horse, from different types of blocks and loose salt. The best way to get salt into your horse is by using loose salt. Whether you give it to them free choice in a feeder or top dress on their feed it is simply a matter of management. Salt blocks are better than giving no salt, but your horse’s tongue is smooth and has a difficult time getting enough of their daily requirements from the block.

Now that your foal has arrived, it’s common to look at the outside of your beautiful young foal, but what is happening on the inside?

The diverse microbiome in the hindgut (cecum and colon) of a horse is essential for fibre breakdown and digestion along with maintaining a strong immune system against toxins and bad bacteria. The foal’s gut is not fully developed to digest anything other than milk at this point and the microbiome is not that of an adult horse.

What felt like the longest winter in history (don’t fact-check us on that) has slowly and thankfully morphed into the very promising start of spring.