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NUTRI-CALM LIQUID vs NUTRI-CALM GEL
Not sure whether NUTRI-CALM LIQUID or GEL is right for your horse? Discover the key differences between daily calming support and targeted support for stressful situations, and find the best option to help your horse stay calm, focused and responsive.
Competition Day Energy & Recovery for Horses
Worried about your horse fading on day two of an event? Our experts explain how Pre-Fuel Gel boosts competition-day energy and how Re-Fuel electrolytes support recovery and rehydration — plus how to prepare the week before.
Your PRE-FUEL & RE-FUEL FAQs: Energy, Performance & Recovery
Discover common questions about Pre-Fuel and Re-Fuel supplements for horse energy, recovery, hydration, and performance support.
How Pollen Season Affects Racehorse Performance & Respiratory Health
Discover how pollen season impacts racehorse respiratory health and performance, including signs of airway irritation and management tips.
Kentucky Karron Oil FAQs
Understand the benefits and uses of Kentucky Karron Oil with expert FAQs from Foran Equine. Learn how this premium emulsified flaxseed oil supports digestion, coat condition, joint health, fertility, and omega-3 intake in horses.
Horse Hydration & Electrolytes for Summer Performance
Sluggish horse in summer? Dehydration could be the cause. Learn the signs of dehydration in horses and how electrolytes and energy supplements like Equi-Lyte G, Pre-Fuel Gel and Re-Fuel Gel keep performance horses hydrated and energised.
Electrolytes for Racehorses: Performance & Recovery
Support racehorses with the right electrolyte supplementation. Learn when to supplement, how to feed it, and why it matters.
Nutri-Calm FAQs
Calming supplements vary greatly in their ingredients, presentation and in how quickly and effectively they work. Some are designed to be fast-acting in the form of a paste or gel, which is administered via a syringe into the horse’s mouth.
Nutri-Calm: Case Study on Supporting Anxious Horses at Shows
There are a lot of external influences that can increase stress for horses and especially for youngsters that are learning the ropes.
A Practical Guide to Sales Prep – Supplementing for Sales Success
Learn practical strategies for preparing horses for sales, with Foran Equine supplements to support condition, energy and performance.
Nutri-Gard FAQs: Digestive Health and Gut Balance in Horses
Everyone's talking about gut health. Discover what postbiotics are, how they differ from pre and probiotics, and how Nutri-Gard supports your horse's digestive health.
The Importance of Gut Heath: Preparing for Competition
As the season kicks off, our horses’ routines change considerably. They might be allowed extra paddock time, access to fresh grass or new batches of forage. Work rates may increase significantly requiring higher energy and nutritional demands, all of which will impact your horse's gut health.
Cal-Gro: Supporting Skeletal Health in In-Foal Mares and Foals
Learn how Cal-Gro's pelleted format supports skeletal and bone development in foals and in-foal mares, and its role in preventing DOD.
FEI 2025 Rule Changes: Prohibited Treatments and Supplement Options
Learn about FEI 2025 rule changes, including prohibited treatments, injection restrictions and safe oral supplement options.
Equine Gut Health Study: Effects of Prebiotics, Fibres & Postbiotics
This preliminary field study demonstrates that horses supplemented with NG had significantly higher faecal pH after 56 days. Supplements such as NG may help improve faecal pH and could potentially be used along with changes in the overall diet to reduce the occurrence or severity of hind gut acidosis.
Supplementing Your Horse’s Diet for Mobility and Joint Health
Support your horse's mobility and joint health with focused nutrition. Learn how diet and key nutrients help maintain healthy joints.
Adding Oil for Calories and Vitamin E for Balance in Horse Diets
Learn how adding oil to feed provides extra calories for hard-working horses, and why vitamin E is essential for balance.
Optimising Nutrition for Foal Sales Preparation
Support foal sales prep with key nutrients for growth, topline, coat, digestive health and calm behaviour in the sales ring.
Winter Gut Health Support for Horses
Prepare your horse for winter stabling and dietary changes with Nutri-Gard, supporting gut balance, immunity, and digestive comfort.
Supplements for Dressage Horses: Muscle, Recovery & Joint Health
Support your dressage horse with targeted supplements for muscle development, recovery, joint health and digestion.
Horse Wound Care: Types, First Aid, Bandaging & Healing
Wounds are unfortunately very common in horses and you’re almost guaranteed to encounter one at some point! Careful management of wounds can help optimise the environment for healing and ensure as speedy a recovery as possible.
Electrolyte Loss in Horses: Signs, Imbalance & Supplementation
Horses can sweat up to 15 litres per hour, losing vital electrolytes as well as fluid. Learn why electrolytes matter, how imbalances affect performance and recovery, and when to supplement with Equi-Lyte G, Refuel Liquid or Refuel Gel.
Protein for Yearlings: Boost Muscle, Topline, and Condition for Sales Prep
In the run up to yearling sales, enhancing physical development is key to making sure that they stand out and look their very best in the sale ring. Protein is an important nutritional component for supporting optimal muscle development.
Building Quality Topline & Muscle Development in Horses
Achieving a good topline requires a good exercise programme and a balanced diet, which can be supported by supplementation with key nutrients including lysine, vitamin E, and selenium.
Preparing horses for winter
As the evenings become darker and temperatures drop, it’s worth considering how best to prepare your horse for the winter months.
Breeze-Up Horse Nutrition & Supplements For Sales Preparation
Preparing breeze-up horses for sale requires experience and knowledge of the sales process, optimal nutrition, and of course the appropriate training regimes. The right management at this stage can help your horses sell well and continue in successful racing careers.
Complete Guide to Multivitamin and Mineral Supplements for Horses
Multivitamin and mineral supplements can be really useful to increase a horse’s essential nutrient intake and give peace of mind if you are concerned your horse is at risk of nutritional gaps.
Horse Hoof Health: Supporting Growth & Strength Through Nutrition
Proper hoof care is vital to the well-being of a horse and, as horse hooves are continuously growing at a rate of 6-10mm per month, a horse’s hooves will often reflect their overall health. Factors such as nutrition, farrier care, environmental conditions, exercise and genetics can all affect hoof growth and quality.
Supplements to Optimise Your Mare’s Milk Production During Lactation
Having given your mare the best possible care during pregnancy to ensure both the well-being and health of her and her unborn foal, it is important to continue this post-birth. Keeping your mare in optimal health will show in her colostrum and continuing milk quality and production, providing her foal with the best start in life.
Eventing Preparation Tips: Nutrition, Recovery & Performance
Eventing can be a nerve-racking experience for riders and grooms, as there is often a lot of pressure to perform well following months of training and preparation. Helping your horse look and perform their best on the day requires the perfect balance of an optimal fitness programme and strong nutritional foundations.
Recurrent Airway Obstruction (RAO) in Horses – Causes, Signs & Support
Previously known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and often referred to as heaves or equine asthma, RAO is a common respiratory problem.
Pre-Season Nutrition for Horses: Diet and Key Supplements
The pace often slows during the off season and so when spring comes around, a gear change is required as pre-season training kicks in ready for the competition season to start.
Managing Anhidrosis in Horses: Signs, Causes & Nutritional Support
Anhidrosis is a serious problem that can develop in horses exercising in hot humid conditions.
How Can I Help Calm My Horse?
Unwanted behaviour in horses can be associated with diet, management routine, environment, and breeding/genetics.
Foaling Season Preparation: Nutrition and Care for Mare & Foal
Foaling is a critical period – so it is important to be prepared. Knowing how to support the mare and foal pre and post-foaling is vital.
Friska Foal: Vitamin & Prebiotic Supplement for Young Foals
Young foals are entirely dependent on the mare’s milk to provide all of their nutritional needs.
Spring Preparation for Summer Show Coat Shine Success
Kentucky Karron Oil & Copper-Max Paste are the ultimate combination for aiding your horse’s digestion, coat condition & hoof health.
Your Horse’s Respiratory System: How It Works and Support Lung Health
A horse’s respiratory system is highly specialised for athletic function, capable of supplying vast amounts of oxygen to their body when it is needed most.
Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies in Horses: How Supplements Can Help
All mammals, including horses, need certain vitamins and minerals for essential body functions. These micronutrients can often only be obtained from the diet, so deficiencies can occur if nutritional requirements are not met.
Laminitis in Horses: Hoof Care, Nutrition & Management
Laminitis is a painful condition in horses and ponies. It is common and frequently recurs in susceptible animals due to underlying conditions. These horses and ponies require special management to try and limit the severity and recurrence of laminitis.
Boosting Your Horse’s Immune System – From Foals to Adults
Your horse’s immune system is vital for fighting infections - be it a virus, bacteria, parasite or fungi. Horses with compromised immune function are more susceptible to illness, ill-thrift, and poor performance.
Yearling Sales Ring Condition: Topline, Coat & Temperament
Having put huge efforts into selecting horses for the sales, it is vital they are in optimum condition with great topline and coat shine to ensure they look their absolute best and stand out in the sales ring.
Protein for Horses: Growth, Muscle & Performance
Protein is an essential part of any performance or exercising horse’s diet. It is required to build and maintain muscle mass, which is vital for athletic performance.
Mud Fever in Horses: How to Prevent and Manage It
Mud fever or mud rash can be a challenging condition to treat in horses. Being prepared is key – knowing when your horse might be at risk and implementing management changes accordingly, such as applying barrier creams
Coughing in Horses: Types, Causes and Treatment
All horses cough occasionally, for example, if they get a bit of debris in their airways, whilst eating or drinking or at the start of exercise “to clear the throat”.
Antioxidants and Muscle Support for Exercising Horses
Free radicals are believed to play a role in muscle fatigue during exercise. Antioxidants can act to counteract these unstable molecules, thereby helping to support muscle health and recovery.
Reducing the Risk of Gastric Ulcers in Horses
Equine gastric ulceration syndrome (EGUS) is a common problem associated with performance horses. In actively racing thoroughbreds, the prevalence is up to 100%.
Tying Up in Horses: Causes, Symptoms, Prevention and Nutritional Support
‘Tying-up’ – also known as exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER), azoturia or ‘Monday morning disease’ - can be a frustrating condition for horse owners and trainers to manage.
Supporting Skeletal Health in Foals from In Utero to Early Growth
Correct nutrition is essential to maintain bone health in horses – particularly during skeletal growth and development. Consequently, a foal’s diet should be continually assessed and managed from in-utero development right through to training.
Nutrition for Growing Foals: Supporting Health, Growth & Digestion
A foal's early days shape its health for life. Learn about colostrum, assessing a healthy foal, when grazing starts, and the supplements that support growth.
Understanding EIPH in Horses: Bleeding in the Lungs
Exercise induced pulmonary haemorrhage is a condition of the lungs that can be found in horses undertaking high-intensity exercise. It is thought to affect up to 95% of racehorses, based on the detection of blood on endoscopy post-exercise.
Diarrhoea in foals
Diarrhoea is commonly seen in foals and can range from being relatively harmless to fatal. Knowing when and how to intervene can make all the difference.
Colic in horses: types of colic, symptoms and treatment
Colic is a relatively common condition in horses, with studies showing that 4-10% of horses are diagnosed with colic every year.1 However, it is important to be aware that some types of colic are more serious than others.
Supplements for Older Horses: Nutrition & Care Advice
The needs of horses change over time and older horses often need extra care. Nutritional supplements can be one way to improve the overall performance and quality of life for the ageing horse.
Discover What a Quality Hoof Supplement Should Include for Horses
Good hoof health is essential to the overall well-being of a horse. Hooves can be influenced by genetics, breed, weight, diseases, exercise, ground conditions, weather, and diet, and these factors should be continually assessed and managed to ensure optimum hoof quality is maintained.
Horse Gut Health for the Competition Season Success
B-vitamins are crucial for health and body function, with roles in performance, growth, reproduction, energy maintenance, and immune system function.
Collecting Donor Colostrum from Broodmares
Colostrum or “first milk” is the thick, yellow secretion from the mammary gland.
Yearling Sales Preparation: Nutrition and Protein Support
It is that time of year again, the summer is coming to an end and the yearling sales are fast approaching.
Competition Day Supplements for Horses
On the day of an event, you want to see the culmination of all the training and preparation come to fruition at the perfect moment.
Post-Exercise Recovery for Horses: Electrolytes, B-Vitamins & Antioxidants
Perhaps one of the most important periods for sustained performance is during recovery from exertion.
Achieving top performance is all about balance
Achieving top performance is all about balance. Every decision has its pros and cons, and it’s only when you find the sweet spot between them that you fly.
Supporting Lean Muscle and Topline in Horses for Performance
Muscle is the foundation of performance, powering all the competitive activity that we ask of equine athletes.
Tying Up in Horses: PSSM2 & MFM and Supporting Muscle Health
For years scientists have attempted to discover the causes of tying up in horses. One of the leading researchers in this field is Dr S Valberg.
Breeding Stallion Nutrition & Supplements Guide
The breeding stallion works hard throughout his reproductive life, starting early – some before they are even 3 years old – and, if successful, continuing well into his later years.
Supplementing the Young Foal: Supporting Growth & Bone Health
As foals grow and wean off the mare's milk, their vitamin and mineral needs shift quickly. Learn why calcium, phosphorus, copper and key vitamins are vital for bone development — and how Osteo-Glycan, Copper-Max and Friska Foal can help.
Broodmare Nutrition & Supplements for Fertility, Gestation, and Lactation
The key to successful breeding starts long before mating and it has been shown that nutrition plays a big role in the reproductive health of a broodmare. From broader aspects such as body condition, all the way down to specific macro and micronutrients, fertility is influenced by what is fed
Copper for Mares & Foals: Deficiency, Role & When to Supplement
Copper plays an essential role in the equine diet, particularly in youngstock.
Racehorse Supplements for Performance, Soundness & Recovery
Supplements can be a controversial topic on a racing yard, some trainers use copious amounts of products, while others use none.
Pre-Fuel & Re-Fuel – Your FAQs answered
We’ve had lots of great feedback on our Pre-Fuel and ReFuel syringes, as well as some questions on how and when to use them.
Copper Supplements for Horses: Benefits and How to Manage Deficiencies
When we think of copper we often think of industrial things like wires and pipes; we don’t really think about our horse’s diet.
Protect Your Horse’s Legs on Hard Ground: Sore Shins, Joints & Hoof Care
The summer season is now getting into full swing whatever equestrian sport it is that you indulge in!
Hydrolysed Protein Supplements for Horses: Support Muscle & Recovery
Hydrolysed protein contains pre-digested proteins, so they’re easier for the horse to absorb and use.
Supporting Your Horse’s Joint Health: Maintenance, Protection & Supplements
So, what makes for a healthy joint in a horse? You’d be hard pushed to find a horse owner that at one time or another hasn’t wondered how best to look after their horse’s joints.
Newborn Foal Nutrition: Growth & Immune Support
The broodmare can provide all the foal’s nutritional requirements for growth, development and immune protection up to three months of life. Getting everything right for the mare and foal can be challenging
Understanding Oils for Horses: Omega-3, Omega-6 & Quality Types
As a horse owner we are almost pre-conditioned to know that feeding an oil to our horses is a good idea, but when we delve into the reasons why, most come up short beyond the fact it is good for their coat.
Joint Supplements for Your Horse: Mobility, Strength & Flexibility
When chosing a joint supplement, knowing your horse, researching and comparing supplement content and claims will serve horse owners well in making the best choice.
How to Choose the Best Calmer for Your Horse
There is a huge number and variety of equine calmers on the market today. Calming supplements vary greatly in their ingredients, presentation and in how quickly and effectively they work.
When to Supplement Your Horse with Vitamins, Minerals & Amino Acids
We hear lots about vitamins and minerals when it comes to feeding our horses these days, they are an essential inclusion in any equine diet, but all the information out there can be a bit puzzling.
Prevent and Manage Sore Shins (Bucked Shins) in Young Horses
Sore shins, also referred to as bucked shins in some countries, is a condition which commonly occurs in horses in their two year old year of training.
Healthy Hoof Growth: Nutrition, Care & Supplement Support
Nutrition plays a very important role in hoof quality. Promoting hoof wall growth, integrity of the hoof tissues and maintaining structural integrity of the foot come from a well-balanced diet that meets the horse’s requirements for all nutrients. The horse’s feet are a sensitive indicator of overall nutrition.
Equine Electrolyte Supplements for Hydration, Recovery & Performance
Horses lose ‘salts’ in their sweat. These salts, or as we should refer to them ‘electrolytes’, are essential minerals that function throughout the body in many physiological processes and, in particular, they enable muscle function.
Foaling Season Checklist: Essential Kit & Tips
Preparation is key to success when it comes to the foaling season, whether you have 1 mare to foal or 50, there are some basic elements that should be included in your foaling kit.
Unwanted Biting & Chewing in Horses: Causes and Management
Crib biting and chewing are undesirable behaviours which affect the horses health as it causes damage to teeth and increases risk of colic.
Vices in Horses: Causes, Management & Practical Solutions
Vices in horses are a regular occurrence as part of stable life. Understanding and managing them is vital for both a horse’s well-being as well as sale value.
Horse Supplement Labels: Expert Step-by-Step Guide
All the information on horse supplements can be a little overwhelming, if you’re not sure what you’re looking at. With a better understanding of the obligatory and voluntary text on supplements you can ensure all your horses nutritional needs are looked after.
Flax Seed vs Flaxseed Oil: Nutritional Benefits for Horses
There are many different products on the market, some seem quite similar. I was recently asked about the difference between ground stabilized flax seed versus flaxseed oil.
