Feeding for Coat Color

Aug 27, 2013

Here is the article about feeding to reduce coat fading for Equine Wellness Magazine. When I was asked if you can change a horses coat by feeding them the coat colour supplements my immediate response was no. They wanted to keep their black horses shiny and black and I said just good nutrition. Any ways, I did look into it and found that paprika as a feed additive does seem to help the horse's coat maintain the depth of the colour when it is used in conjunction with a healthy diet.

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Here are a few other articles I've written for Equine Wellness: Forage Substitutes for Equine Diets Equine Diets: Slow Feeding The Nitty Gritty on Soaking and Steaming Hay Bite Sized Nutrition (Nutrition for Ponies) Pleuropneumonia in Horses (Shipping Fever)