Sorcha graduated with her MVB (Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine) from University College Dublin in 2017. She spent the following six years working in equine and small animal practices in Melbourne, Australia, and Fermoy, Co. Cork. She always had a passion for nutrition and research. She undertook her MSc in Regulatory Affairs in 2022 and wrote her master’s thesis on the highly topical area of antimicrobial resistance in veterinary practice.
Sorcha works as part of our equine technical support team in our Export markets. She is passionate about preventative medicine and believes nutrition is the best place to start. She enjoys discovering the different living conditions of horses all around the world and adapting their diets according to their management. She also loves to keep up with novel nutritional research and endeavours to ensure that RED MILLS is continuously improving to keep up with the latest nutritional technologies.
Sorcha enjoys national hunt racing, hunting, and all things equestrian. She is grateful that her job at RED MILLS allows her to travel and experience the various disciplines of the equine industry across the world.
“Working as an advisor with RED MILLS is so refreshing as it allows me to recommend products that I am confident in, and that really make a difference to horses’ health. I can see how they put the horse at the centre of everything they do and how the horses they feed reap the rewards! As the adage goes, ‘Prevention is better than cure’. It certainly is fun following the champions we have fed from birth right through to the winner’s enclosure!
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.