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Understanding Fibre

Understanding Fibre

With different descriptions on packaging it can be difficult to know just how much fibre your horse is getting.

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Get your horse back to PERFECT Condition

Get your horse back to PERFECT Condition

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Don’t wait until spring…… tailor your mare’s nutrition now for a sound, healthy foal

Don’t wait until spring…… tailor your mare’s nutrition now for a sound, healthy foal

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Is your horse at risk of developing mud fever?

Is your horse at risk of developing mud fever?

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Preparing for the off season

Preparing for the off season

How can you safely shift a horse from near-daily exercise to a li...

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Feeding Tips to Support Gut Health

Feeding Tips to Support Gut Health

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Preparing for Fire

Preparing for Fire

Whether your horses are located at your own property or on agistm...

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Tips for Feeding Horses in Hot Climates

Tips for Feeding Horses in Hot Climates

Feeding horses in hot climates requires careful attention to thei...

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Keeping your horse hydrated

Keeping your horse hydrated

Exercising your horse in summer can lead to increased sweating & ...

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Ink Makes His Mark at Barastoc HOTY

Ink Makes His Mark at Barastoc HOTY

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Two Steps at a time for Isabelle

Two Steps at a time for Isabelle

Isabelle Luxmoore is the latest young rider to enter the Australi...

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Nutritional Advantages for Performance Horses

Nutritional Advantages for Performance Horses

The art of feeding performance horses comes from matching the bes...

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The Keys to Perfect Pony Weight

The Keys to Perfect Pony Weight

The key to an effective pony diet is to manage calorie intake. Fe...

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Keep Calm With Calm Performer

Keep Calm With Calm Performer

Barastoc Calm Performer is a cool performance pellet that is suit...

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How to grow healthy young horses with Barastoc Low GI Cube

How to grow healthy young horses with Barastoc Low GI Cube

Barastoc Low GI Cube is a low GI feed for young and growing horse...

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Managing Gastric Ulcers Through Nutrition

Managing Gastric Ulcers Through Nutrition

Preventing and managing ulcers is very important for performance ...

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Weight gain in skinny horses

Weight gain in skinny horses

Achieving weight gain in skinny horses is often a matter of rewor...

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Feeding Horses After Colic Episode

Feeding Horses After Colic Episode

In general terms, colic refers to pain or discomfort in a horse’s...

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Feeding for acute laminitis

Feeding for acute laminitis

Laminitis is a severe, painful inflammation of the laminae, which...

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Preventing Choke in Horses

Preventing Choke in Horses

Choke can occur when a horse consumes its food too rapidly or tri...

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Food For Thought - Diamond V® XPC

Food For Thought - Diamond V® XPC

All-natural, fermentation-based product for use in equine diets, ...

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Food For Thought - Gastrolize

Food For Thought - Gastrolize

Gastrolize is a gentle slow-release buffering agent that helps pr...

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Obesity In The Show Ring

Obesity In The Show Ring

With the trend towards overly conditioned show horses and ponies ...

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The Low Down on Processed Horse Feeds

The Low Down on Processed Horse Feeds

The ‘Whole Food” movement is alive and well with human nutritioni...

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Post Pregnancy...tailor your mare’s nutrition now for a sound, healthy foal

Post Pregnancy...tailor your mare’s nutrition now for a sound, healthy foal

It’s hard to imagine that before we know it, the sun will be shin...

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HORSE FEED FORMULATION - What is a KER Micronutrient Premix?

HORSE FEED FORMULATION - What is a KER Micronutrient Premix?

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Complete Performer - Formulated to support digestive health

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Super Fibres - The benefits of Beet Pulp

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Diamond V® XPC Prebiotics

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Young Emily Sets a Stirling Example

Young Emily Sets a Stirling Example

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The science behind topline

The science behind topline

Well-built muscles are among the most critical aesthetic indicato...

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Greg Mickan's Eye for Detail

Greg Mickan's Eye for Detail

When attending major show horse events such as the Nationals, imm...

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Feeding Weanlings

Feeding Weanlings

FIRST PUBLISHED BY EQUESTRIAN LIFE MAGAZINE, AMANDA YOUNG...

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Glycaemic Index of Horse Feed

Glycaemic Index of Horse Feed

Glycaemic index is a system used to rank carbohydrates based on t...

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Helping Prevent Autumn Laminitis

Helping Prevent Autumn Laminitis

There are two main periods where grass can be a causative factor ...

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Autumn Feeding

Autumn Feeding

We should never lose sight of the fact that horses are herbivores...

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Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash: A Great Combination

Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash: A Great Combination

It is generally accepted that fibre sources vary greatly in their...

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Fibre-Beet for Veteran Horses and Ponies

Fibre-Beet for Veteran Horses and Ponies

Feeding the Veteran generally requires some modification of nutri...

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Ulceration of the Horse’s Gastro-Intestinal Tract

Ulceration of the Horse’s Gastro-Intestinal Tract

Although it’s not precisely known how many horses have ulcers rep...

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Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash and Speedi-Beet: Are they Suitable for Horses with Ulcers and Those Prone to Colic?

Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash and Speedi-Beet: Are they Suitable for Horses with Ulcers and Those Prone to Colic?

Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash and Speedi-Beet: Are they Suitable for H...

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Tips for handling horse feed in hot weather

Tips for handling horse feed in hot weather

Tips for handling horse feed in hot weather...

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The Benefits of Feeding a Warming Winter Mash

The Benefits of Feeding a Warming Winter Mash

This is a real, but hidden, benefit of a warm mash. ...

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Feeding horses with gastric ulcers

Feeding horses with gastric ulcers

The high incidence of ulcers in performance horses results, in pa...

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Hot & fizzy behaviour

Hot & fizzy behaviour

How to feed the hyperactive, hot, fizzy horse...

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Feeding the older horse

Feeding the older horse

As winter approaches the condition of your older horse is critica...

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Energising your flat horse

Energising your flat horse

Nutritional, health, management and environmental factors are all...

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Feeding your stallion for double duty

Feeding your stallion for double duty

Feeding your performance stallion correctly during breeding seaso...

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Feeding horses with Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS)

Feeding horses with Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS)

Feeding horses diagnosed with Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) and...

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Batwings, foo foo dust & unicorn poo - de-bunking myths of supplements

Batwings, foo foo dust & unicorn poo - de-bunking myths of supplements

New products on the market which have ingredients not yet been pr...

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The maths behind weight gain

The maths behind weight gain

How do I gain condition or weight on my horse safely?...

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How to let your horse down in the off season

How to let your horse down in the off season

When the final stock horse show of the season is over most people...

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Early lactating mare

Early lactating mare

Ensure your foal develops to its full potential and your mare is ...

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Knowing your performance horse

Knowing your performance horse

Feeding your performance horse can be quite a challenge as there ...

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Feeding horses with a propensity for weight gain

Feeding horses with a propensity for weight gain

Feeding the horse / pony that has propensity to gain weight easil...

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Colic - Prevention is better than cure

Colic - Prevention is better than cure

Having a horse with colic is a terrifying event, from uncomplicat...

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Feeding fibre in drought

Feeding fibre in drought

Droughts are an ever increasing part of life for horse owners in ...

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Beauty starts from within

Beauty starts from within

Establish a solid foundation for your horse’s health, promote ‘bl...

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Nutritional assistance for the showring

Nutritional assistance for the showring

Catch the judge’s eye with a healthy shinny coat - healthy on the...

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Feeding & caring for the older horse

Feeding & caring for the older horse

Preparing our older horses to maintain their health and condition...

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Energising your horse

Energising your horse

In assessing whether your horse is flat because of nutrition we n...

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Investing in their future

Investing in their future

Nutrition plays an extremely important role in how your mare and ...

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Late Trimester Feeding

Late Trimester Feeding

Preparing for your new born foal starts before conception. ...

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Conception to birth

Conception to birth

Nutrition plays an extremely important role in ensuring your foal...

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Spring feeding and insulin resistance

Spring feeding and insulin resistance

Horses and ponies may be at risk of laminitis and/or suffer from ...

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