• Do your horses cost too much to feed?   
• Do you have more than 1 or 2 cases of treatable colic a year?
• Do you have less than a 90% live foal birth rate? 
• Do you have less than a 95% conception rate? 
• Do you have more than an occasional foal that is born with weak pasterns or crooked legs?
• Do you have weanlings and/or yearlings with straight pasterns and pasterns that 'knuckle' over?
• Do you think you have to feed high protein sweet feed and alfalfa to keep your horses looking good?  
• Does your barn have a strong ammonia smell when you go in?
• Do you think winter wheat pasture is too 'rich' or 'hot'? 
• Are your vet bills sky high? 
• Are founder and white line disease a problem?
• Do your horses on pasture get fungus on their backs in the winter or rainy season?

For years we have been asked to help people with their day to day management of their horses.   

We welcome inquiries and can provide 'over the phone' consultation services in some instances.  We can travel to your farm and over-see complete management set-up or offer recommendations and changes to help with one or more problem areas.   We check with local experts from County Extension Agents to Universities and forage labs in the region to see what the nutrition and mineral content is in locally grown feeds;   We research costs of available local and hauled in feed;  We match these criteria with your housing and pasture availability.  We work out the most cost effective feeding program that has the least potential for problems.   

Different concentrates are usually recommended according to the kind and quality of hay or pasture that is available.  Different concentrates are recommended for different age horses.  There is no 'one size fits all' feed.  Young horses need more protein than mature horses.  Protein is not just protein - it varies a great deal in quality.  The quality of the protein is determined by the amino acids and other factors in it.  

Some feeding programs require tighter management than others.  Sometimes cost effectiveness has to be sacrificed for greater safety when there is less competent help doing the chores.  

All of these things will be taken into consideration when we make our recommendations.  

We can also make recommendations for breeding programs.  In today's tighter horse market, you have to raise the right kind if horses, have to have the least amount of cash in them and have to have them looking and growing GREAT and know how to market them.   Mares have to have a foal every year without a gigantic vet bill.   

We have had people tell us that they saved several thousand dollars a year from changing their feeding program alone and their horses actually looked better.   They have told us that colic, 'rain rot' (fungus) and crooked foals complete disappeared while costing them less.

If you think your program would benefit from management changes, give us a call.

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