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Body Condition Scoring & What it Means for Choosing the Right Feed
Learning how to correctly body condition score your horse and interpret the results is the first step toward building a great nutrition plan.
You will learn what body condition scoring is, why it matters for your horse, how to correctly perform it and what the results mean for disease risk and foundational meal planning.
From there we will discuss the three basic categories of commercial feeds and how to choose the right feed for your horse based on body condition, life stage and workload.
You will walk away with knowledge that you can implement immediately on your own farm as well as some useful handouts to keep you on track.
Hay-It Matters! Understanding Forage, a Hay Analysis and the Impact of Forage Intake on Gut Health
This event is focused on the most important part of the horse’s diet, forage. Hay and forage are often overlooked as the single most important factor in the horse’s diet, yes, even more important than bagged feeds and supplements.
Learn why forage and hay are so important to the overall health of the horse, what the numbers on a hay analysis really mean and how you can feed hay strategically to protect your horse’s gut health.
You will walk away with a list of strategies to protect your horse’s gut health that you can implement today, and they won’t cost you a dime!
Equine Gastric Ucer Syndrome-Guest Speaker Dr Ben Sykes
On Tuesday, February 18th at 6:30 pm you have the rare opportunity to have a face-to face meeting and Q & A via Zoom with one of the top EGUS researchers in the world, Dr Ben Sykes BSc, BVMS, MSc, MBA, DipACVIM, PhD, FHEA.
Dr Sykes is a veterinarian of internal medicine with over 27 years of clinical experience with high performance and sport horses. He was the lead author for the 2015 European College of Equine Internal Medicine Consensus Statement—Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome in Adult Horses, and in 2023 and 2024 he has been ranked in the top 2 % and 1 % respectively of global researchers by Stanford University.
At 6:30 pm at Shadydale Equine Center, you will enjoy a warm catered meal and at 7 pm Dr Ben Sykes will join us from Australia to help us understand EGUS and how we can manage risk in our horses.
One hundred percent of proceeds will go to Dr Sykes’s continued research to improve the welfare of all horses!
Space is limited to 15 attendees, so register in advance here.
Questions submitted in advance will receive priority during our Q & A time.