
NUTRITION AND FEEDING
Diet and nutrition protocols, important information, instructions, and advice for horses and dogs.

Beer for Horses: Four Healthy Reasons
Guinness stout beer is often recommended as an aid to help horses with anhidrosis, but beer for horses goes beyond ...

Overcoming Equine Lameness With Therapeutic Whole Foods
BioStar blog contributor Lizzie Meyer relates her experiences with lameness in horses, and choosing the right whole food supplements to ...

The Right Foods for Autumn
In both Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine, a variety of foods and herbs are used throughout the year to balance the ...

Distillers Grains: The Antibiotic Connection
Distillers grains, also known as "distillers dried grains with solubles" is a common ingredient in processed feeds. As the name ...

Equine Joint Supplements: Food for Better Connections
There are so many equine joint supplements available, that it's hard to figure out which one to choose. But if ...

Coming to Terms: What Food Labels Really Mean
There are so many marketing geniuses, hype specialists, and spin doctors in the food industry these days it’s hard to ...

Horse Feed Preservatives: Better Living Through Chemistry
At a recent seminar I gave in Wellington, Florida, several questions were raised in the audience about certain preservatives in ...

The Wonders of HSCAS: Healing Clay for Horses
On my frequent journeys down the rabbit hole of research, I stumbled upon a silicate clay designated in scientific terms ...

Whole Food Nutrients: The Body’s Top Choice
Before there was much specific talk of whole food nutrients, there was a simpler question: HOW ARE NUTRIENTS DELIVERED TO ...

Nutritionism: Understanding Ingredients, Understanding Food
Before jumping into nutritionism, let's think about ingredients for a moment. When we read the labeled contents of most commercial ...

Processed Horse Feed: The Great Compromise
The advantages of commercially processed horse feed: There is no question that commercially processed horse feed has provided convenience to ...

The Amazing Healing Power of Smectite Clay
I want to go into some detail on the benefits of smectite clay for horses, but first, I confess: In ...