Horse owners can optimize performance and efficiency in their animals by knowing how to score body condition through visual assessment. "Broodmares due to foal in late April or late May could probably ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Md. -- An overweight horse may be a happy horse, but it's certainly not a healthy horse. Research from the University of Maryland and other universities in Virginia, Tennessee and ...

We’ve had horses most of my life, and I always thought a fat horse was a happy horse. Maybe because the easy keepers didn’t need much extra attention. Guess I hadn’t thought it through. At a recent ...

It can be difficult to tell the difference between fat and muscle when looking at a horse or pony, but identifying them from one another is essential in preventing our much-loved equines becoming ...