Category: Horse Health
An equine nutrition podcast built for working horse owners, not just elite performance barns. The host, a licensed equine nutritionist based in the Southwest, addresses real-world feeding challenges — hay quality in drought years, managing an easy keeper in a pasture board situation, senior horse nutrition as a horse ages out of hard work, and balancing ration costs without sacrificing topline and hoof quality. Episodes cover forage-first principles, why many commercial feeds are over-fortified for the average pleasure horse, and how to read a feed tag beyond the crude protein number. Specific episodes have addressed electrolyte supplementation for summer performance horses in Arizona and Texas, iron overload in horses on lush pasture, and ulcer-friendly feeding programs for horses on the road. The show regularly features feed company nutritionists but asks the hard questions about marketing versus science. Practical, evidence-based, and grounded in what horses in real barns actually eat.