Cows, with their multiple stomachs, can digest all manner of plant material. Horses need hay, high quality hay. As a drought-caused hay shortages looms this winter, here's an interesting strategy to ...

Abruptly change the hay a horse is fed and it could die. Allow a horse to eat too much fresh green grass and its hooves may fatally disintegrate. Let a horse gorge on more hay than it needs to stay ...

Agriculture officials said that six horses died in North Carolina after eating hay containing blister beetles.The Rocky Mount Telegram reported that state Department of Agriculture investigators have ...

When possible, hay should make up a large portion of a horse’s diet. Most mature horses should be fed 1.5 to 2.5 percent of their body weight in forages daily. Long stem forage, such as hay, is ideal ...

For horses that are sensitive to inhaled irritants, eating hay can be a problem. Even the cleanest, highest-quality hay is likely to contain a moderate amount of fine material. When a horse plunges ...

Many Wyoming ranchers stick to the traditional way of doing things when feeding livestock in the winter — with a team of ...

Ad lib forage is the ideal scenario for horse’s who are a healthy weight. Feeding ad lib means their supply of hay or haylage, which must be the core of every horse’s diet, is plentiful and they won’t ...