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16lbs of Grain And Still Losing Weight

A little over a year ago I received the following email.  ”I have a 4 year old 17.2 hand Dutch warmblood gelding. He had OCD surgery as a 2 year old, and colic surgery as a 3 year old, and then...

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Body Condition Scoring

Body condition scoring (BCS) is an objective method of evaluating a horse’s level of condition by palpating and visually assessing the degrees of fatness over certain areas of the horse’s body.  A...

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Understanding Energy Balance

Photo courtesy of Topline Training Inc. Simplistically stated, when energy in equals energy out, body condition is maintained.  This means that if the energy content of the diet you feed your horse...

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