Hay or Haylage?🌾 With most farmers hard at work🚜 you may be starting to contemplate what supplementary forage your horse will get over the winter.🐴 Many yards offer the option of hay or haylage, but some yards still prefer to supply only haylage. Why is this?🤔 For multi-disciplined yards (i.e. those who also keep livestock such as cows🐮) haylage/silage will be their primary feedstuff over the winter. Feeding in a brush-stroke manner is more efficient meaning haylage takes priority -...

This club has been created through a collaborative partnership between Scott Mitchell Veterinary Care and Horse Weighbridge North East Limited, bringing together veterinary expertise and practical equine weight-management experience with one shared goal: helping horse owners reduce the risk of laminitis through education, monitoring, and proactive management. If you've just joined, welcome and thanks for being a founding member! When Liz and I set up the original Laminitis Prevention Club...

Although temperatures have only just started to dip into single figures, there is certainly a bite in the air! Have you reached for the rugs yet? Winter weight loss is a focus for most of us at this time of year, but we need to make sure we are aware of how to create weight loss 𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆. We have many tools at our disposal, so let me tell you why "shivering the weight off" is 𝗻𝗼𝘁 the best option. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿? Shivering is a vital way of maintaining core...