Health & Care · #feeding

Health & Care guides tagged “feeding” from the Apex Equine resource center.

• How much hay does a horse actually need? — The honest answer isn't 'two flakes.' It's a percentage of body weight, adjusted for work, weather, and whether your horse turns hay into muscle or fat.
• How to change your horse's feed without causing colic — The hindgut microbes that digest your horse's food need a week or more to adapt to anything new. Rush the switch and you risk the most preventable colic there is.
• Ration math made simple: a feeding calculator for any horse — Stop feeding by the scoop and start feeding by the number. This is the same back-of-the-envelope calculation we run for any horse — work through it once and you'll never guess a ration again.
• A barn feed-chart template that survives a new groom — The feed program in your head is worthless the day you're not at the barn. This is a fill-in chart any fill-in helper can follow without calling you — and without colicking a horse.