Picky Horse Pandemic: 5 Steps to Get Your Horse Eating What You Buy Them
Five steps to get your picky eater enjoying what you buy him!
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- Oct 24
- 10 min
Trick or Treat: A Comparison of Horse Treat Ingredients, Cost, & Marketing Claims
A comparison of enriched horse treats; cost, ingredients, and marketing claims.
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- Jun 1
- 6 min
Defining the Trace Mineral Supplement Category?
The OCEN Fortified Four include complete feeds, performance feeds, ration balancers, and trace mineral supplements. We're finishing our...
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- May 26
- 4 min
What is a Ration Balancer?
This week I'll be breaking down what I call the "Fortified Four" into a series of short articles. The OCEN Fortified Four include...
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- May 22
- 5 min
What is a Complete Feed?
It's a phrase with a lot of connotations, but only one specific meaning in the feed industry!
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- Oct 25, 2021
- 6 min
The Seven Sins of Selling Horses
*Selling horses is really rough, primarily, I think, because there is so much passion involved. And where there is an over abundance of...
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- Jul 28, 2021
- 17 min
Is Colic Insurance from a Supplement Company Worth It?
The PRO's and CON's of colic surgery insurance/reimbursement plans. If we consider these options rationally (without emotion), is
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- Jun 22, 2021
- 4 min
How to Trial a New Supplement
Do these 3 things before you click PURCHASE on that new supplement! How do you know that a new supplement is working or not? I get this...
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- May 17, 2021
- 2 min
My Insecurity Cure & Horse Show Update
Imagine my Insecurity Sandwich- layers of blackened frustration, putrified perfectionism, smothered with ego, and held together with two...
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Natalie Sullivan, MS PAS
- Apr 12, 2021
- 4 min
Coprophagy stands for GROSS
Very, very few things make me gag, but my four year old OTTB going to town on her pasture mate's fresh manure pile is definitely one of...
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Natalie Sullivan, MS PAS
- Mar 1, 2021
- 4 min
The Messed Up Marketplace that is Horse Hay Shopping
A local forage grower hung up on me this week. What did I do to deserve the auditory middle finger...I asked if by chance he had done a...
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Natalie Sullivan, MS PAS
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
Theory of Relativity [in equine nutrition]
At some point during horse ownership, you’ve probably gotten frustrated trying to provide the perfect diet for your horse(s). It’s...
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Natalie Sullivan, MS PAS
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
To Buy or Not to Buy: The Opportunity Costs of a $1,332 Supplement
I bought a new digestive aid supplement today, and then the buyer’s remorse set in. It was only AFTER clicking “Confirm Order” that I...
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Natalie Sullivan, MS PAS
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
Why do so many supplements recommend the same size scoop?
Doesn’t it seem suspicious to you that nearly all equine supplements on the market today, including but not limited to joint, digestive,...
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On Course Equine Nutrition
- Dec 3, 2020
- 4 min
Why we ignore the most important nutrient for horses.
Ok, you got me. We are actually going to talk about the second most important nutrient in equine nutrition. The first being good ol’ H20...
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