Equine Allergies and the Immune System

I remember, as a child taking riding lessons, getting started at the trot and the horse coughing a few times.  I remember feeling like he was going to pull me right over his head and being worried something was wrong.  My instructor would say something like, “He’s just cleaning out the cobwebs.”  The cough would … Read more

Keeping Your Horse In the Best of Health with Beet Fibre

Dr Tom Shurlock, nutritionist with British Horse Feeds for Speedi-Beet & Fibre-Beet, discusses the benefits of beet fibre, micro flora, pre and probiotics, for horses and ponies and how they impact gut health. Beet fibre has long been used as an equine feed due to its nutritional suitability, supplying high levels of slow release energy … Read more