Rooted In Equine Wellness & Nutrition

09/13/2024

Meet Jack, a 27 year old quarter horse gelding. He just finished up a 90- day nutrition program with me, and he is looking great!

These are his before and after pics! He still has a little more weight to gain, but his mom and I are both very pleased with his progress!!

If you think your horses nutritional program might need a makeover, give me a call!!

05/14/2024

03/06/2024

Do you know how to determine your horses ideal body condition score?

Body condition influences everything in your horse’s life, from reproductive efficiency, to performance, to good health. By using Body Condition Scoring (BCS), you can find out what kind of shape your horse is in, and work to improve the score. Scoring focuses on critical areas of the body, based on palpable fat and visual appearance.

The ideal body condition for "most" horses falls between a 5-6.5 🥰

This chart gives good examples of what a BCS of a 1-8 look like.

If we book a session one of the most important things we will make sure you can do is accurately body score your horse! It is CONSTANTLY changing, and it is vital that you can ascertain your horses ideal condition!!

Thank you KER for such a good BCS chart!

08/26/2023

**HOW DOES IT WORK?**

What happens if you are interested in a consultation? What can I do for you and your horse?

Well, here are the nuts and bolts of what my service looks like!

Did you know that there are basic nutritional requirements based on your horses weight and lifestyle that are already set up in a database called the NRC? Everyone has access to it! The NRC database will tell you what your horses digestible energy needs are, their crude protein needs, and what many different vitamin and mineral requirements are, as well as lysine, the number 1 limiting amino acid! Do you know what that means??

I am able to look at your hay/forage analysis as well as your feed tag, then compile your horses current diet to determine whether or not his/her basic feeding requirements are being met by their current diet, and if they are not, then we put a plan in place to do so!!

I will teach you to understand body condition scoring so that you, the owner, can regularly evaluate your horses current body condition, and if it is not appropriate for your animal we will set a goal together and a nutritional program to help your horse get there! This is done by adding or cutting calories from their current diet in a very specific way so that weight loss/gain is done at a slow and consistent rate.

If necessary, sometimes we also need to take special circumstances into account, like EMS, HYPP, muscle myopathies, f***l water syndrome, senior horses, dentition problems, etc.

If you would like any more info, prices or would like to set something up please give me a call at (330) 340-6113

08/15/2023

Business cards are in!! 🤩