Peter Waller

Hi Mark. Not having observed the horse at all, am just wondering how 'stressy' (reactive) this horse is in its daily life? I would possibly scope the horse for an ulcer - at this age and given the breed it will be highly likely to present with one. I would also try and arrange a diet that is high in dietary vegetable oil (such as canola oil and soybean oil blended at 90:10% in the diet). At these ...

Been caught up in this Australian fiasco, let it be pointed out that in all reality, only 20% of the horse population in Australia is of the throughbred persuasion with the remaining 80% being regarded as being in the pleasure horse catergory. It is within the 20% (racing industry) that the lions share of these supposedly available funds being bandied about by both federal and state governments is ...

The extended quarantining of a number of Australia's top stallions will have a serious effect on the horse breeding industry, McGauran said. Some of Australia's best known and most valuable stallions are amongst these horses. Oh Yeah??? Pur company has just been quarrantined at the EFI World Cup Eventing in Warwick as 4 horses there apparently showed elevated temperature signs etc. - Personally, ...

Good article about herbal products for equines. As an equine nutritionist I never fully discount the areas written of even though I have taken the opposite approach to feeding. If I were to be given furhter information as to how or why these products work in the equine field then I may even become more open to them. I also know there are several anti-nutritional factors involved in a few of the pr ...

As a consulting Equine Nutritionist and lecturing at Universities, TAFE Colleges and in the public sector for The Queensland Horse Council as well as running private seminars for the public, I have to agree with the author on the point that there is in fact a definite need for intensive and ongoing knowledge to be passed on in relation to the correct methods and requirements for horses. The only t ...

Well thought out and researched and covered a lot of bases in relation to a somewhat baffling condition or epidemic that is not seemingly limited to this country. I have heard various reports of mares throughout our country of Australia also aborting at various stages of pregnancy with no particular definable reason. They seem to be completely random and not confined to any one particular area or ...