Feeding Horses S1 E8: Putting Weight on Senior Horses

About this episode

Welcome to Feeding Horses, sponsored by Kentucky Performance Products. Here at the end of October, we are firmly into fall. The time to prepare for winter is now. If you have a senior horse (or any horse for that matter) that is underweight, you might want him to gain some weight before the temperature really starts to drop. Dr. Shannon Pratt-Phillips joins Stephanie Ruff to help us understand how to best put weight on our hard keepers. Dr. Pratt-Phillips is a professor of animal science and the director for the Distance Education Animal Science Programs, including the Master of Science program, at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include glucose metabolism, insulin…