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EQUINE: Winter – Reduced Turnout Time
14 Dec 2018
Harbro Equine Nutritionist, Dr Vicki Glasgow, gives some useful advice on how to feed your horse over winter.
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EQUINE - Spring is sprung - a cautionary tale Mar 2018
1 Mar 2018
What a winter! It seems to have been never ending this year with very little respite from the cold. As a consequence, the grass has actually stopped growing this winter; it certainly has up here in the frozen North. As I write this, we are in mid-March and I can’t think of the last time that I saw such poor looking grass swards at this time of year. I really feel for all those farmers who are...
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EQUINE - Late winter condition issues Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018
This winter has been a much harder winter than we have had for a good few years. Consequently my Inbox has had a more than average number of queries /comments on horses losing condition. Among these are queries on horses that normally keep their condition well over the winter. Late winter condition loss is not unusual during a colder winter and rather than crossing fingers and hoping for an ea...
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EQUINE - Feeding during the fittening period Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018
Many of us in Scotland may feel like we have now gone in to permanent hibernation as regards our horse life. Wall to wall ice does not make for fun times with our horses. There is light at the end of the tunnel however and at some point, with increasing day length and improving weather, we must turn our thoughts to either increasing workload or to fittening from scratch, depending on how much...
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EQUINE - Young Riders Blog Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018
ANUARY BLOG NORTH WINNER: LEIGH-ANN ALLAN, 21 FROM PERTH Image courtesy of Ronnie Low Photography at Scotsburn Wow can’t believe how quickly January has flown by although winter seems to be dragging its heels to leave!!! Its been a couple months since my last update and I hope you all had a lovely time over the festive period. December and January have both been rather quite months than...
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