The importance of a comfortable, good night’s sleep

Mar 12, 2020 behavior,  comfortstall,  equine behavior,  performance,  research_featured

Equine behaviour specialist Sharon Smith MSc SEBC(Reg) IEng BHSAPC discusses the importance of a good night's sleep for horses

Recovery from Training or Competing – How important is it?

Oct 24, 2019 behavior,  breathless,  eventing,  research_featured

Dr David Marlin looks into how horses recover from exercise and how important this recovery is to their overall health and performance.

Hay bugs? Identifying the bacterial profile of hays following soaking or high temperature steaming

Sep 19, 2019 #hay soaking,  dust,  Equine nutrition,  forage,  forage analysis,  hay,  hay steaming,  research_featured,  respiratory disease,  soaking hay

When looking to improve the hygienic quality of hay the best option to reduce potential pathogens while keeping the microbiota you are feeding your horse as normal as possible is to use high temperature steaming.