February 2004

Help For The Skinny Horse

Weight Builder, Cocosoya and Gleam & Gain are top picks for adding calories to your horse’s diet.

A fit horse is an athletic horse. Just like with us, horses feel better and perform better without excess weight.

The first thing you need to ask yourself is whether or not your horse really needs a weight-gain product. Lately, especially with young sales horses and show horses, the bodyweight many horsemen seem to consider ideal is actually too fat.

This trend is compounded by the fact that many recreational horses, especially ponies and easy-keeper breeds, are overweight due to a lack of regular work and/or overfeeding. We’ve ended up in a situation where the ideal body image of what a horse is supposed to look like is distorted in many people’s minds. A horse who’s actually a bit overweight begins to appear normal. The worst part is that our horses…