Reading Time: 6 minutes Fashionable diseases or metabolic disorders? What are they anyway? For some years now, more and more horses with metabolic ‘syndrome’ diseases have been appearing. These include Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS), which is often referred to as ‘equine diabetes’, and Equine Cushing Syndrome (Cushing’s disease). Twenty years ago, EMS and equine
Reading Time: 5 minutes What can you do about it? How does faecal water develop? Digestive disturbances in the horse’s large intestine can lead to faecal water, which is becoming increasingly common today. What happens in the large intestine? In the intestine, structural carbohydrates get digested by microorganisms. Additionally, water and nutrients are extracted
Reading Time: 7 minutes Is it a useful hay substitute? The advantages of haylage: The horses like it Horses enjoy eating ensiled (preserved via fermentation) products because, quite simply, they taste good.Haylage is dust free, which means that any horse with chronically irritated respiratory tracts cough less. Horses with chronic coughs are recommended by
Reading Time: 3 minutes Detoxification for your horse Toxins are omnipresent (widespread) Every day horses are exposed to a multitude of toxins. On the one hand, toxins are produced in a horse’s own metabolism, amongst other things from the breakdown of proteins and fats as waste products. On the other hand, toxins are also
Reading Time: 5 minutes When the metabolism is overloaded How does the horse’s metabolism work? Answering this question could fill several books. We will attempt to explain it briefly here. What the metabolism does “Metabolism” refers to the process by which substances in food are broken down in the intestine, absorbed, and then transformed
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