How to Manage Your Horse’s Weight and Diet: A Straight-Talk Guide from the Barn

Practical guide assessing your horse's weight, balancing forage and concentrates, portioning, schedules, and weight monitoring.
Nourishing Horses, Enriching Lives.
Nourishing Horses, Enriching Lives.
Nutrition for horses: evidence-based guidance on forage, feeding schedules, supplements, and ration planning to support health, energy, and overall well-being.

Practical guide assessing your horse's weight, balancing forage and concentrates, portioning, schedules, and weight monitoring.

Your horse's daily hay: weight-based amounts, workload, hay quality, hay types, feeding schedule, signs of over/under feeding.

Create a reliable horse feeding schedule: daily meal times, portions, hay and grain balance, water, weight checks, tweaks.

Horse feed and water limits: daily requirements, intake factors, measuring tips, signs of over/under, practical feeding plans.

Toxic foods for horses: complete danger list, poisoning symptoms, safe substitutes, prevention plus first-aid steps.

Safe human foods for horses: what to feed or avoid, portion tips, treat limits, toxicity risks, signs of trouble.

Safe flowers and herbs for horses: edible plant list, dosing tips, toxins to avoid, feeding guidelines, storage, cautions.