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Don’t Underfeed Your Metabolic Horse: Why Severe Restriction Can Backfire

Evidence-based feeding strategies for horses with EMS, insulin dysregulation and laminitis risk, and why underfeeding metabolic horses can sometimes do more harm than good. There is a growing trend in some areas of equine management to recommend prolonged periods of hay restriction combined with feeding as little as 1 to 1.5% of body weight for […]

Medication for EMS horse

Using New Medication for EMS

There are two new drugs which are transforming the landscape of the treatment of equine metabolic syndrome in horses. These innovative drugs are looking like the best medication for EMS, especially in an emergency where insulin dysregulation makes insulin levels difficult to control and laminitis may strike. Veterinary note SGLT2 inhibitor medications such as canagliflozin […]