Author: Juliet M Getty

Juliet Getty explains how fruit can round out a horse’s diet beyond traditional supplements.

Reducing calories through depriving forage ironically keeps your horse overweight.

Reducing inflammatory stress is the key to helping your horse beat the bulge.

Pasture grazing is the best way to keep your horse healthy. Grasses are not only highly nutritious, but grazing supports both physical and mental health.

To protect against ulcers, many veterinarians will prescribe omeprazole, but there are real concerns with the continued use of this drug.

Is your horse getting enough salt and iodine in its diet?

In a suitable, native environment, horses are quite capable of taking care of themselves. They are free to eat and roam and, well, be horses.

If you’re feeding correctly, gas colic should not happen. And if it does, then you’re more than likely doing something wrong.

The longer a horse lives as an overweight, stressed animal, the more difficult it is to bring that horse back to a normal weight, free of hypothalamic inflammation, with no more leptin or insulin resistance.

Learn how horses benefit from essential fatty acids and how their needs can be met through supplementation.

All horses, even healthy ones, can benefit from colostrum, writes Juliet Getty.

Question: My 34-year-old Quarter Horse gelding has no molars. Is there anything I can do to keep his gut moving in the winter without having to go out all night long and feed him every two hours?