Feeding is a complicated science — never more so than with a competition horse aiming for peak performance. Emily Bevan sorts the facts from the fiction Myth: adding oats to my horse’s feed ahead of a ...

Care must be taken when feeding cereals as the horse's digestive system can only handle so much starch at once. The stomach of the horse has a very limited capacity (the size of a rugby ball). A small ...

Few dispute that nutrition is important for athletic performance in racehorses. However, I'd wager that there is much less agreement among horse owners, nutritionists, and veterinarians when asked to ...

Could the development of high-quality, improved oats help reduce gaseous emissions from livestock? This is the question being asked by IBERS’ head of plant breeding, Athole Marshall. Initial research ...

POMPANO BEACH — Thieves used the victim’s truck to steal $400 worth of oats and horse feed from a feed shop in the 1200 block of Hammondville Road on Aug. 27 or 28, police said. The truck was ...

Oatmeal the blind steer is no longer an Aggie. And his eyesight may be a little better than first thought. After spending a month at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical ...

There’s a way to feed an apple to a horse: Keep your hand as flat as you can, making it more of a tray, while proffering the fruit. If you drop the apple, that’s preferable to maybe losing a finger, ...

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