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Don't wait until your horse starts coughing

Don't wait until your horse starts coughing

Dr David Marlin, Professor in Physiology at Oklahoma State University explains why respiratory diseases in horses is not always detected from coughing. Compared to people horses are much less likely to...

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Benefits of steaming over soaking hay

Professor Meriel Moore-Colyer talks about the benefits of steaming over soaking hay, whether home made steamers work, and how the Haygain steamer achieves the required results.  

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Marginal gains can make all the difference

Marginal gains can make all the difference

Similar to Olympic disciplines for human athletes, the winning margins in the thoroughbred industry are very small. In fact, there is a 0.3% difference between first and second place in racehorses...

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Steamed hay helps horses perform at their best

Steamed hay helps horses perform at their best

The importance of a healthy respiratory system for optimal performance cannot be underestimated. At gallop the horse will inhale 1800 litres of air per minute. Volumes of up to 300...

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Beware of sugar rich grass this Spring

As Spring arrives horses can spend more time outside grazing but be aware of the sugar rich grass..

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Feeding Haygain can reduce incidence of IAD by 63%

An important new study found that feeding horses Haygain steamed hay reduced the incidence of Inflammatory Airway Disease (IAD) by almost two-thirds.  

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