Tag: nutrition

Calories, density and NSCs: Understanding different feeds

December 5, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

This month I decided to review Freedom’s feeding regime. Sure, it’s working, but I wanted to compare different feeds to determine what would give me the best nutritional profile, the amount of calories he needs to hold his weight, and low enough starch — non structural carbohydrates, or NSCs — to keep him from getting […]

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How hard does your horse work?

May 14, 2009.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve always thought that my horses have had pretty easy lives. Five or six days a week I ask them to carry me around for an hour or two. Sometimes that ride is just an amble; other times it involves galloping and jumping. But still, that’s not much. I wish that my workday was so, […]

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