This is not at all helpful but an amusing irony. Here in the UK the SBM is excellent quality, easily available and as “cheap as chips” (fries). It’s imported from the USA!

Great, let me know how she gets on!

Hi Angela,

I’m in the UK, do tell your friend that I get my SBM from a company called Burnhills. It’s 44% CP, hulls extracted, really good quality and arrives in a couple of days. What’s more it has done wonders to my dressage horse’s topline and over all muscling.😀

Hi Angela

Re your choleric horse.

I’ve had 2 seminal moments in the last 40yrs of horse ownership. The one was discovering Dr T and this diet, which changed my horse from carrying too much fat and not enough muscle to having a body that is well muscled and athletic. The other being discovering Dr Andrew McLean and Equine Learning Theory. He a… Read more

Hi Dr T,

Another great Rounds talk, thank you. Over in the UK if we need to travel more than 2 horses we do it in a lorry, over here trailers only take 2 horses. We don’t have the big trucks you have for trailing. They would never fit into our car parking spaces. Compared to the US our parking spaces are tiny! Most of the trailers, including m…

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I’m sorry I couldn’t join the live webinar but I have thoroughly enjoyed listening and learning from the recording.
I am a keen soaker of hay but what do you think of feeding oat or barley straw to horses? The horses will always eat their hay in preference but it can be mixed with some of the hay ration to reduce the over all starch content.

Hi Matt,

Thanks, I found the it all very interesting. I’d never heard of EOTRH until I found your website. I’m amazed that something that has such a profound affect on the incisors doesn’t affect the molars and that no-one knows the cause.

Do horses in the wild get it?

Thank you for these talks and podcasts, it’s giving me a much better…

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Hi Matt,

Was the talk recorded?

Ahh, I thought that was you! I’m hugely impressed. I’m lucky enough to have a trainer who teaches all her pupils and their horses as if they were aiming for GP. Her daughters are both FEI GP riders and have ridden Internationally. Although we all mostly manage the movements that is a world apart from putting them all together in a test!

Thanks for your helpful replies. I now feel I have a good response to people’s concerns. In the UK we all get our water from the water companies very few people will have a well. Our local water company gets the water from deep underground aquifers. I went on their website and looked up our water analysis, it was packed full of minerals!

Kathy…

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Hi All,

When chatting to horsey people about this diet and saying providing you are giving your horses good quality hay/grass, ground water and a salt lick they shouldn’t need added vitamins and minerals, the standard reply is…… “Ah yes, but we fence them in. In the wild they have access to many different grasses and plants to eat”. Some… Read more

Thanks for the webinar, it was really interesting. I’m glad it was recorded as I needed a second listen! I knew exercise is important but had no idea just how important.

Years ago I stumbled across a TED talk by Prof Lustig called Sugar The Bitter Truth. This was during the time of ‘low fat’. He was illustrating just how ‘toxic’ too much sugar…

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Hi Caroline, that sounds like an excellent idea.

Hi Chrissy, welcome, we are a truly international group of like minded horse owners. 😀

Thanks for the article, it has given me the nudge I need to increase Jordao’s SBM. He was on 1lb for a couple of months and I’ve gradually increased it to 1.5lbs and was wondering if I could up it some more. He has lost his excess body fat and loves his SBM/ Alfalfa feeds. If he has 2lbs a day that brings his daily protein up to 835gms. The only…

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Hi Kerry, welcome from a fellow Brit. 😀

How about the horse’s gut biome as a topic, or a particular aspect of it?

Jenny

Thank you both for your responses. I’m in for the longterm. I have already noticed his stomach muscles looking tighter.

I’m shocked that in all the time I’ve had horses I never new about the BCS or TLS. Between them I have an objective assessment of the amount of fat and muscle on my horses.

I hadn’t knowingly been feeding grain, just a simple…

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Hi Kathy,

It’s good to hear your experience of the diet. After doing the Nutrition Course I Body Conditioned Scored (BCS) my horse, Jordao a Lusitano, found him to be 6.5 with a Top Line Score (TLS) of D! I swung into action, started soaking his hay, took off his rug, increased his exercise and sourced some SBM. It’s easily available in the UK…

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Hello everyone, I’m Jenny from Norfolk in the UK. It’s the bulgy bit north east of London. I’ve been riding since 1970 and still hoping to improve. For the last 20yrs I’ve had Iberian horses, mostly Lusitanos and one PRE. I am passionate about Classical Dressage.

I used to be a keen cross-country runner and apart from riding, I like nothing… Read more