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Wherever you are, riding your horse, mucking out the stable, picking poo in the field or sitting down for a quick cuppa. Plug in your ear phones or hitch up your speakers and get ready to get expert about horse nutrition and management with the Forageplus Horse Academy.
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Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
In this episode, Sarah discusses her top tips for the best winter horse feeding.
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How do you make sure your horse has the right balance of nutrients to keep them healthy and active throughout the long dark winter months?
How do you ensure the right amount of calories keeps your horse at the right weight?
Calories are often the easy part of horse feeding but how do you know what nutrients and at what level they are needed in the daily diet to protect the health of skin, hooves, and maintain optimum horse health?
There are many horse supplements on the market but choosing which one will give your horse the winter minerals and vitamins it needs can be confusing. Sarah discusses ten ways to know what nutrients are best to focus on for the healthiest horse in winter.
Sarah Braithwaite is the founder and owner of Forageplus with thousands of hours of horse time and horse study under her belt. She set up Forageplus in 2010. It is now the go-to horse feed company, throughout Europe, specialising in scientific analysis of grass, hay, haylage, water and soil for horses. Forageplus operates a forage focused horse supplement feeding approach to achieve optimum health for all horses.
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Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
In this episode, Sarah continues her discussion on how to feed the performance horses. This is part two of a two-part discussion.
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When you are doing a variety of training with your horse and they are working right into the moderate work level and above, it is vitally important to get all your nutritional ducks lined up so this podcast and the one before discusses how you feed the most active of horses for longevity and the best athletic umph.
This episode discusses:
Using fat in the performance horse's diet.
Using acetyl-l-carnitine to help horses adapt to training and support muscle health.
If you can feed a low sugar and starch diet to a performance horse?
What electrolytes should you be concerned to get right?
What vitamins need to be supplemented into the diet.
Which separates to choose to carry any supplements and provide adequate energy and boost protein levels.
How to make sure there is enough protein in the daily diet to fuel the best muscle development and longevity of athletic performance.
Sarah Braithwaite is the founder and owner of Forageplus with thousands of hours of horse time and horse study under her belt. She set up Forageplus in 2010. It is now the go-to horse feed company, throughout Europe, specialising in scientific analysis of grass, hay, haylage, water and soil for horses. Forageplus operates a forage focused horse supplement feeding approach to achieve optimum health for all horses.
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Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
In this episode, Sarah discusses how to feed the performance horses. This is part one of a two-part discussion.
Download a FREE PDF booklet of this information and store it for the future or give it to a friend with who you eat, sleep and breathe horse with.
When you are doing a variety of training with your horse and they are working right into the moderate work level and above, it is vitally important to get all your nutritional ducks lined up so this podcast and the next one will discuss how you feed the most active of horses for longevity and the best athletic umph.
This episode discusses:
What should be the greatest proportion of the performance horse's diet?
How do you keep the digestive system healthy?
What kind of hay or haylage should you feed?
Should you feed a complete bagged feed?
How do you ensure a fully balanced diet for your horse to support it in competition and what are the different aspects of that balanced diet approach?
Sarah Braithwaite is the founder and owner of Forageplus with thousands of hours of horse time and horse study under her belt. She set up Forageplus in 2010. It is now the go-to horse feed company, throughout Europe, specialising in scientific analysis of grass, hay, haylage, water and soil for horses. Forageplus operates a forage focused horse supplement feeding approach to achieve optimum health for all horses.
If you would like to find out more about Forageplus then visit our website
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Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
In this episode, Sarah Braithwaite discusses how to understand what levels of the electrolyte minerals you need to feed to horses. Electrolyte supplements for horses are important when a horse sweats or eats forage that is short of electrolyte minerals.
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Getting levels right as matched to the grass, hay or haylage your horse eats can mean you can avoid a horse tying up or just being very lethargic. The more activity your horse does, the more your horse loses electrolytes through sweating the more crucial it becomes to get electrolytes right in your horses daily diet.
So how is it best to support your horse with the electrolyte minerals needed? What are electrolyte minerals? Do you need an electrolyte supplement for your horse and why pay attention to the amounts in your grass and hay?
Sarah is the founder and owner of Forageplus with thousands of hours of horse time and horse study under her belt. She set up Forageplus in 2010. It is now the go-to horse feed company, throughout Europe, specialising in scientific analysis of grass, hay, haylage, water and soil for horses. Forageplus operates a forage focused horse supplement feeding approach to achieve optimum health for all horses.
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Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
There is nothing more exciting than having a young horse to train and bring on. The wonderful journey of developing a trusting relationship and the fun and satisfaction to be had from being involved in a young horse's development is what horsemanship and the equestrian life is all about.
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In this episode, Sarah Braithwaite unpacks information on feeding young horses so you can discover exactly how to feed a young horse while it is growing up. Sarah gives advice for a carefully planned approach and answers the question "How do you address nutritional requirements to supply adequate protein and the vitamins and minerals needed to build a healthy, strong and robust body? Just what is the best way to achieve growth for a strong, resilient adult horse who will be with you for many years of fun?"
Sarah is the founder and owner of Forageplus with thousands of hours of horse time and horse study under her belt. She set up Forageplus in 2010. It is now the go-to horse feed company, throughout Europe, specialising in scientific analysis of grass, hay, haylage, water and soil for horses. Forageplus operates a forage focused horse supplement feeding approach to achieve optimum health for all horses.
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Friday Jul 02, 2021
Friday Jul 02, 2021
When summer arrives, we love our horses having more grazing time with the sun on their backs. In this episode, Sarah Braithwaite discusses a horse supplement approach that starts with the grass your horse will be eating over the summer period and answers the question “What is the best feed for horses when they are in the field”?
Regardless of how well cared for your pasture is there will always be low levels of certain nutrients which over time can cause insufficiency and even full-blown deficiencies. Understanding how to address this through the summer months will keep your horse healthy, happy and more resilient.
Sarah is the founder and owner of Forageplus with thousands of hours of horse time and horse study under her belt. She set up Forageplus in 2010. It is now the go-to horse feed company, throughout Europe, specialising in scientific analysis of forage, water and soil for horses and forage focused horse supplement feeding.
If you would like to find out more about Forageplus then visit our website
Read this podcast as an article here
Download a FREE PDF booklet of this information and store it for the future or give it to a friend who you eat, sleep and breathe horse with.
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