Feed Room Chemist: An Equine Nutrition Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

It’s fly season and there is nothing more irritating than a barn full of flies zapping the energy right out of your horses. This episode covers feed through fly control options and extra management tips to make your horse’s life as fly-free as possible this summer!

Resources

• Here are some of Dr. Jyme’s favorite fly control options. Dr. Jyme receives no incentive, discount, or kickback from these brands, they are just products she personally uses and loves.

o Bobby G’s Fly Spray (chemical free)

o ShooFly Leggins

o Fly Free Boots

o Spalding Labs Fly Predators

o Starbar Fly Control Products

o Solitude IGR

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If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@bluebonnetfeeds.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet (formerly Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health). For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

The old saying “no hoof, no horse” couldn’t be more true. If you have ever found yourself in a situation with a horse that had foot issues, you quickly realize there isn’t much you can do with that horse from a work or athletic standpoint, you may be devoting hours/days/weeks/months to helping the horse heal, and sometimes the situation may be career, or even life, ending. This episode sifts through many hoof conditions and explains when nutrition may or may not play a role.

Resources

• Common Indicators of Hoof Stress – with Dr. Debra Taylor and Dr. Tracy Turner: https://thehorse.com/190264/horse-hoof-stressors/

• A Field Guide to Hoof Cracks – Equus: https://equusmagazine.com/horse-care/field-guide-hoof-cracks-55256

• Hoof Abscesses - University of Minnesota Extension: https://extension.umn.edu/horse-health/hoof-abscesses

• Laminitis – UC Davis Veterinary Medicine: https://ceh.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/health-topics/laminitis

• Quittor - Merck Veterinary Manual: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/musculoskeletal-system/lameness-in-horses/quittor-in-horses

• Quittor – Butler Professional Farrier School: https://butlerprofessionalfarrierschool.com/archives/2237

• Side bone - Merck Veterinary Manual: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/musculoskeletal-system/lameness-in-horses/sidebone-in-horses

• Navicular disease – Iowa State University: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/equine/navicular-disease-western-pleasure-horses

You can now follow @drjyme on Facebook and Instagram! Please tell your friends how #feedroomchemist has made you an #empoweredhorseowner!

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If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@bluebonnetfeeds.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

Modern feeding practices can have some not so great impacts on our horse’s mouths. In this episode Dr. Jyme explains how current “normal” practices in our horse’s environment can cause unintended consequences for a horse’s dental health.

You can now follow @drjyme on Facebook and Instagram! Please tell your friends how #feedroomchemist has made you an #empoweredhorseowner!

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If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@bluebonnetfeeds.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

Ever thought of green grass, iron supplements, and zinc as dangerous? Most people have not. This episode explains when normal nutritional components can turn dangerous.

Show Notes:

Feeds proven by Dr. Nichols to be “super-safe" if a horse were to break into the feed room! 😅 (Check out the episode for that inside joke). 

Equilene Pro Care and Intensify Senior Therapy both by Bluebonnet Feeds.

101 Diet balancer – provides balanced trace minerals and vitamins for easy keepers, insulin resistant horses, or those that can’t tolerate extra calorie levels.

Intensify Ex-Factor Low Starch – a low starch, low sugar feed that provides extra calories or energy for horses that are sensitive to sugar levels in the diet.

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If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@acbluebonnet.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

Equine nutrition consultant, Lindsay Burer, joins us for our first ever guest episode! Lindsay offers insight on what it is like to be a traveling nutrition consultant with Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health, what an owner can expect from a nutrition consultation, and the highs and lows of this kind of career.

Show Notes:

Connect with Lindsay, on Facebook: Lindsay Burer- Equine Nutrition Consultant

facebook.com/lbequinenutrition

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If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@acbluebonnet.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

This episode addresses listener questions around wobbler syndrome and how to feed weanlings to 2 year olds.  Dr. Nichols shares her secrets to helping reduce OCDs in a breeding operation.

Show Notes:

Products mentioned in this episode are:

· Intensify Growth & Development by Bluebonnet Feeds

· 101 Diet Balancer by Stride Animal Health

· Ortho Max by Stride Animal Health

· Surge by Stride Animal Health

· Fish Oil Factor by Stride Animal Health

If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@acbluebonnet.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

This episode uncovers the benefits of using a metabolic pH balancer in equine athletes for improving hydration, supporting  muscle function, speeding up recovery time, and supporting normal movement of digesta through the intestinal tract. We are also going to address a listener question about anhidrosis in horses.

Show Notes:

Products mentioned in this episode are:

· Turbo Mag BCAA– for helping maintain healthy metabolic pH balance. Now through September 30, 2020, use promo code SIZZLE at checkout for a buy one Turbo Mag BCAA, get the second half off (5 lb pails only). 

If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@acbluebonnet.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

This episode hits the high points in the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 PSSM and what you can do to manage these horses and help prevent episodes of tying up, or at the very least lessen their severity.

Show Notes:

Products mentioned in this episode are:

· Moving Up – supplement designed for horses with PSSM

· Turbo Mag BCAA– for helping a horse stay hydrated and maintain healthy metabolic pH balance.

· Intensify Omega Force – high fat, low starch feed for horses that tie up.

· 101 Diet Balancer– a diet balancer for horses that tie up.

If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@acbluebonnet.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

This episode uncovers the secrets behind your horse’s manure and offers tips for abnormal situations. After that Dr. Nichols touches on the use of GMO ingredients in horse feeds (CAUTION: personal opinions may be involved), and then wraps it up by explaining why some people worry that flax seed might cause cyanide poisoning in their horse.

Show Notes:

Products mentioned in this episode are:

· Turbo Mag BCAA – for helping a horse stay hydrated and maintain normal healthy bowel movements.

· ADR Paste or Powder – support for the microbial environment in the hind gut, especially for horses with loose stool caused by anxiety, stress, or medications.

· GI Calm – supplement designed for horses battling leaky gut syndrome.

· Intensify Senior Therapy – ideal for horses needing an easy-to-chew few that is high in fiber and low in starch/sugar.

· 101 Diet Balancer– a diet balancer free of GMO ingredients.

If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@acbluebonnet.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult

This listener question episode digs into nutritional approaches to support: tendon and ligament health, degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis (DSLD), recovery from stifle surgery, and osteochondritis dissecan (OCD) prevention.

Show Notes:

Products mentioned in this episode are:

• Ortho Max – provides the building blocks necessary for tendon-to-bone healing and improving bone fill during critical growth stages.
• Surge– nitric oxide supplement that helps improve nutrient supply to bones, tendons and soft tissue.
• Fish Oil Factor – omega 3 for total body anti-inflammatory support.
• 101 Diet Balancer and NutriMix Plus– both supplements provide the diet balancer effect for providing important trace minerals to growing horses and horses recovering from injury.
• LIFELINE+ Equine® Plasma Supplement for improved joint range of motion and stride length.
• Intensify Growth & Development – feed for broodmares and growing horses.

If you have a topic or question you would like addressed on a future episode please email info@acbluebonnet.com

Dr. Jyme Nichols is Director of Nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. For more information on these brands or a free virtual nutrition consult from our team just visit bluebonnetfeeds.com/nutrition-consult