Why a Forage Only Diet Might Not Be Enough for Your Horse

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If you can, you should just feed your horse forage. Pasture, hay, haylage, chaff, forage cubes. Forage is the most natural source of calories and protein for your horse. And it does the best job of keeping your horse’s gut and its bacteria and fungi (the microbiome) functioning as it should. We know, from mounting […]

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