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Nutrition Consultation
can help you with a whole variety of problems and challenges with
your horse, whatever their job is.
Nutrition and feeding are important whether your horse is a companion
pony, a pleasure riding horse, a show hunter or an elite eventer or
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Correct nutrition supplied by a balanced diet
if vital for good health. Because horses are fed a variety of feedstuffs
including forage, compounds and supplements, supplying a balanced
diet can be a challenge.
Nutrition and feeding advice can
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Produce a shiny horse full of
health and vitality |
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Promote weight gain or weight
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Ensure a balanced diet |
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Maintain a healthy immune system |
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Encourage a fussy
eater |
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Formulate a ration with natural
and/or organic feed |
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Horses and ponies may suffer from a variety
of feed-related illnesses, and advice can help to both avoid such
problems and manage existing ones.
You may also have been referred
by your vet. Get advice on how to:
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Avoid feed related illnesses
such as laminitis and tying up (rhabdomyolysis) |
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Manage existing feed-related
illnesses |
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Manage feed-related abnormal
behaviour such as windsucking and crib-biting |
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Use feed supplements to their
best advantage |
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Sports nutrition for horses is currently the
focus of some exciting research. Factors such as diet composition,
time of feeding, electrolyte supply, post-exercise feeding and pre-competition
feeding can have effects on athletic performance.
Advice about correct nutrition
for your equine athlete can help to:
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Train to peak fitness |
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Achieve optimal performance |
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Obtain efficient recovery rates |
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Reduce the risk of injuries,
especially in young equine athletes |
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Avoid performance-related
health problems including gastric ulcers and stereotypical behaviour
(previously called vices) |
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Correct nutrition is fundamental for the creation
of new life, and growth of a healthy body depends on a balanced supply
of nutrients.
Advice about correct nutrition
helps to:
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Improve conception rates |
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Maintain breeding potential in
stallions |
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Avoid stress related problems
during weaning |
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Produce healthy growth curves
in youngstock |
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Avoid development
orthopaedic disease including epiphysitis and OCD |
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Fulfil genetic potential |
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Many more horses and ponies are living into
their twenties and even thirties nowadays, and they often require
specialist care and feeding.
Nutrition and feeding advice
can help to:
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Replace unprocessed (long) dietary
fibre sources with feeds suitable for horses with little chewing
ability |
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Maintain condition, even during
the winter months |
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Manage age-related disorders
such as equine cushings syndrome |
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Maintain a good quality of life |
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