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Chickpeas For Horses: Should They Be Cooked First?
4 things to consider when feeding chickpeas to horses Chickpeas do contain anti-nutritional factors including trypsin inhibitor, which is the same as the main anti-nutritional factor found in soybeans....
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Benefits of Oats for Horses
It has been known for a very long time that oats and horses just seem to get along well. Of all of the cereal grains we can feed to horses, oats is the only grain that can be fed safely without being...
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How Long Should You Boil Barley or Corn?
Cooking cereal grains before you feed them to your horse is very important. It improves how easy they are for your horse to digest and drastically reduces the chance of them causing negative effects in...
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Grain Free Horse Feed: What Does it Actually Mean?
It can be a bit confusing to get to the bottom of what grain free horse feed really means, especially when you see it printed on a feed bag derived mostly from grain products. In this post we’re...
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Are Soybean Hulls Safe For Horses?
Are your soybean hulls safe? Because some of them definitely are NOT! Soybean is a great ingredient in a horse’s diet. The protein is amazing and year in, year out we feed it to horses with stunning...
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Psyllium Husks
Is your horse on a drylot, sandy soil or on a paddock with virtually bare dirt? Something we are not very good at is remembering to feed psyllium husk regularly to clean accumulated dirt and sand out...
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What is the Safest Form of Flaxseed – Whole, Ground, Heat Treated or Oil?
Confusion around what form of flaxseed (linseed) is best/safest to feed our horses is nothing new. While many of us thought the concerns around cyanide poisoning for horses were laid to rest, recent...
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Is Copra Meal a Good Feed For Horses?
Copra meal. It’s an interesting ingredient, made from the flesh of the coconut after a lot of the oil has been extracted. Copra tends to divide people, with some horse owners loving it and some not a...
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Sugarbeet is more SUPER than I realised!
If you’ve been hanging around FeedXL for a while you will know I LOVE sugarbeet pulp! And last week, while I was doing a consulting job I found another (very important) reason to love beet even more…...
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Herbs: Where Do They Fit in Your Horse’s Diet?
The use of herbs as a source of compounds beneficial in promoting good health dates back many (many) thousands of years. In the age before ‘synthetic’ drugs, herbs were the only available source of...
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