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Hard Feed

Learn how to feed an overweight horse a balanced, low-calorie diet without compromising essential nutrients. Discover how to choose a suitable feed balancer, add low-calorie fibre sources, support energy levels and make practical changes to help manage your horse’s weight.

Grazing

Learn how to manage grazing for horses that need to lose weight, including ways to limit grass intake with strip grazing, track systems and grazing muzzles. Discover tips for managing turnout, laminitis risk, fructan levels and insulin dysregulation.

Work out how much forage to feed

Learn how to calculate the right amount of forage for your horse based on bodyweight, including minimum fibre requirements and how to account for the moisture content of hay and haylage. Find out how to weigh forage accurately and manage daily portions.

Forage

Learn how to manage forage for overweight horses while supporting digestive health. Discover tips for choosing, soaking and feeding hay, reducing calorie intake, slowing forage consumption and providing healthy fibre-based alternatives.

Exercise

Learn how exercise can support healthy weight loss in horses, including suitable exercise levels, workload management and un-ridden options. Discover how to gradually increase activity and track your horse’s exercise safely and effectively.

Body Condition Scoring

Learn how to body condition score your horse, assess fat coverage and monitor changes in weight and condition. Discover the 1–9 and 0–5 scoring systems, key areas to assess and how to identify a cresty neck.

Weight Taping

Learn how to measure your horse’s bodyweight using a weightape or weight estimation formula, monitor weight changes accurately and understand why body condition scoring is important for assessing your horse’s health.

Showjumping Exercises to Improve Accuracy at Corners | Chris Bartle

Great Britain’s World Class Performance Coach, Chris Bartle, shares his advice and exercises for you to try at home; part five, the final part of the series, looks at learning an exercise to perfect jumping corners.

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