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Aransas County Commissioners, at their regular meeting Monday, Aug. 23, heard from five residents regarding stray bullets flying across their property in the southern reaches of Aransas County, outside the

Horsetalk.co.nz Jeepers, creepers, where’d you get that easy keeper? A new owner-friendly horse scale to identify the easy keepers from the hard keepers has been developed by researchers at the University of Delaware. Horses with different metabolic tendencies are anecdotally referred to as “easy” or “hard” keepers. Easy keepers tend to gain weight easily while hard keepers require extra feed to maintain condition. There is also a group sometimes referred to as medium keepers...

ADVERTISEMENT Are your foals outside full-time with their dams? Or do you keep your breeding stock indoors with occasional pasture access? The answers to these questions might have consequences on your foal’s digestive health, even on a microscopic level. In a new study, young foals raised as members of a free-roaming herd had a vastly more varied hindgut microbiome than those raised in stalls with regular turnout. The results suggest that even in the first six weeks of life, when foals are s...

Keeping the Horse’s Hindgut Happy Getting back to basics and simplifying meals might be the key to keeping the horse’s hindgut healthy and functioning properly. Learn more in this article excerpt from the February 2021 issue of The Horse. Favorite ADVERTISEMENT Getting back to basics might be the key to keeping the largest portion of the horse’s GI tract functioning properly Horses are powerful, athletic animals. Their digestive systems, however, are delicate compared to those of most ot...