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Feed Focus - Barastoc KER Stud Balancer

Feed Focus - Barastoc KER Stud Balancer

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Understanding Fibre

Understanding Fibre

With different descriptions on packaging it can be difficult to k...

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Get your horse back to PERFECT Condition

Get your horse back to PERFECT Condition

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Lucerne and its effects on gastric health

Lucerne and its effects on gastric health

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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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Thoroughbred Growth and Future Racing Performance

Thoroughbred Growth and Future Racing Performance

The racing success of a Thoroughbred horse is determined by a mul...

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Davali’s Dynamic Duo

Davali’s Dynamic Duo

Breeding racehorses...

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From sale ring to racetrack – Feeding during the training transition

From sale ring to racetrack – Feeding during the training transition

by Nutritionist Clarissa Brown-Douglas PhD...

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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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Hunter’s Hot Streak

Hunter’s Hot Streak

Strike rate unmatched...

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Making Magic at the Gold Coast

Making Magic at the Gold Coast

Sale Success ...

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Oaklands Stud. The family affair in the heart of the Darling Downs with a rich local history.

Oaklands Stud. The family affair in the heart of the Darling Downs with a rich local history.

Producing winners...

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Tips for handling horse feed in hot weather

Tips for handling horse feed in hot weather

Storing feed during summer can be a challenge...

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Selective Seib making waves

Selective Seib making waves

Danielle Seib is a name to watch...

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Feeding Horses After Colic Episode

Feeding Horses After Colic Episode

Avoid recurrence...

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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

Gentle, low GI, high in fibre...

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Building on the Twin Hills Stud legacy

Building on the Twin Hills Stud legacy

Tait's Twin Hills tradition...

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Horse Feed Formulation - What is a KER Micronutrient Premix?

Horse Feed Formulation - What is a KER Micronutrient Premix?

Vitamin and Mineral solution...

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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 Low Down on Processed Horse Feeds

The Low Down on Processed Horse Feeds

Textured, pelleted, and extruded feeds....

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Managing Gastric Ulcers Through Nutrition

Managing Gastric Ulcers Through Nutrition

Preventing and managing ulcers is important for performance...

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Breeding winners akin to premiership

Breeding winners akin to premiership

To get the full picture of Longwood Thoroughbred Farm you need to...

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Investing in their future

Investing in their future

Nutrition plays an important role...

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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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Crosby bred for success

Crosby bred for success

Crosby bred for success ...

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Priming stallions for breeding season

Priming stallions for breeding season

Nutritional requirements for optimal performance ...

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Getting broodmares ready for spring

Getting broodmares ready for spring

Good broodmare nutrition is vital ...

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Widdup’s winning ways

Widdup’s winning ways

Brad Widdup, rising star of the Sydney training ranks, admires co...

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Diamond V® XPC Prebiotics

Diamond V® XPC Prebiotics

The Low Down on Yeast Culture...

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Celebrating Flow Meter’s success, longevity, and consistency

Celebrating Flow Meter’s success, longevity, and consistency

Flow Meter retires at 200 races...

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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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Hunter's homegrown way

Hunter's homegrown way

I wouldn’t change Synergy for the world...

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Food For Thought - Diamond V® XPC

Food For Thought - Diamond V® XPC

Research results have shown that the inclusion of Diamond V in ho...

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Chasing success, Forster’s way

Chasing success, Forster’s way

Desleigh Forster trains first Group One winner...

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How does Gastrolize TM assist horses prone to Gastric Ulcers?

How does Gastrolize TM assist horses prone to Gastric Ulcers?

Barastoc Gastrolize is a gentle slow-release buffering agent that...

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Willow Park’s Winning Formula

Willow Park’s Winning Formula

Willow Park Stud is one of the more familiar, and successful Aust...

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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

A healthy mare and foal doesn’t happen by chance. ...

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Some streets are paved in gold

Some streets are paved in gold

Thoroughbred horse racing history is littered with stories of the...

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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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The new beginning for an old favourite

The new beginning for an old favourite

Cornwall Park Stud in Victoria is given new life ...

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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 - Balanced Feed Simplified

Complete Performer - Balanced Feed Simplified

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Complete Performer - Formulated to support digestive health

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Winter Feeding - Managing the cold months in style

Winter Feeding - Managing the cold months in style

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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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How to let your horse down during lockdown

How to let your horse down during lockdown

Recent events with Covid-19 have forced many of us to look at our...

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Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash: Properties and Benefits

Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash: Properties and Benefits

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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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Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash and Ulcers - an Update

Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash and Ulcers - an Update

A previous article, Ulceration of the horse’s digestive tract, di...

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Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash for Veteran Horses and Ponies

Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash for Veteran Horses and Ponies

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

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Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash: More Than The Sum of Its Components

Barastoc Fibre-Beet Mash: More Than The Sum of Its Components

Lucerne, whether the whole plant or a silage, has proven to be a ...

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Gastro-Intestinal physiology

Gastro-Intestinal physiology

Normal gastro-intestinal function - its physiology, biochemistry ...

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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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