Can nutrition give horses that “first class” travel experience?
Travel, whether by road, air, train, or sea, is a routine experience for most horses in training. For some, travel may be limited to relatively short journeys by road to race meetings within the UK, whilst other horses globetrot around the world to participate in race meetings in Europe, the Middle East, the USA or Australasia, and others may spend a proportion of the year in training in another part of the world. Whilst travel is a much less arduous experience for horses these days, it can still be a relatively stressful experience and can have a detrimental impact on their health and subsequent performance. The digestive, respiratory, and immune systems are placed under significant pressure during particularly long periods of travel, and colic and respiratory infection, including shipping fever, are of a particular concern. Read full story…
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