Equine Health

Healthy microbiome diversity in the GI tract starts here.

EQUINE HEALTH

BIOSTAR’S EQUINE RESEARCH

Equine nutrition, diet, supplements, health products, and research specific to your horse’s health and wellbeing.

Camelina Fields for Camelina Oil | BioStar US

Gold Star EQ: Camelina Oil for Horses

Camelina (Camelina Sativa) is a plant native to Europe; it has been used for thousands of years as food for ...
Coconut oil: one of the top 5 foods for immune support

Top Five Immune Support Foods for Horses

We know that the health of the horse begins in the GI tract.  The gastrointestinal system plays a central role ...
Metal Toxicity and the Foods to Fight It

Metal Toxicity and the Foods That Fight It

With regard to metal toxicity and other ecological contaminations, Researcher Dr. Gregor Reid recently wrote in the Journal of the ...
What if all whole food supplements for dogs and horses started like this?

Introducing Toppers: Real Whole Food Enhancements for Mealtime

How do innovative whole food supplements for dogs and horses go from idea to reality? A little backstory is in ...
Feeding horses in 1856

What Horses Used to Eat: Feeding Horses in 1856

A veterinary surgeon named John Stewart, professor of veterinary medicine in Glasgow, Scotland, wrote a book that was published in ...
Equine recovery foods

Feeding for Recovery

Daily training exerts stress on the body and increases cortisol, which breaks down muscle rather than building it up.  To ...
BioStar's new line of unique horse poultice products

What Makes a Horse Poultice Unique?

There are lots of choices in regards to horse poultice products, but neither the equine nor canine industries have seen ...
Nutritional Support for Lyme Disease | BioStar US

Nutritional Support for Lyme Disease

Most of what we hear about Lyme disease focuses on the danger to humans, but it's our canine and equine ...
Turmeric: one half of the Turmeric and Boswellia Dynamic Duo

Turmeric and Boswellia: The Dynamic Duo

When we think of dynamic duos, we may think of Batman and Robin, Thelma and Louise, or Butch Cassidy and ...
Dried cabbage for ulcer-prone horses

Dried Cabbage for GI Ulcers in Horses

This article on the benefits of feeding dried cabbage to ulcer-prone horses was written by John Seaman for Harmony House ...
Stall mucking, before and after enlightenment

Still Mucking After All These Years

It occurred to me the other day as I lifted yet another fork full of manure and dumped it in ...
Without optimum joint health, this isn't possible.

Feeding for Joint Health

Several years ago, a friend of mine had a total knee replacement.  He had osteoarthritis from the bangs and blows ...