UHN: The Latest Happenings!

In this first issue of UHN: The Latest Happenings! I hope you find lots of great information. I had tons of fun putting it together, so I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

Please don't be afraid to give me some feedback...

...let me know what you'd like to see included in future issues!

October 28, 2008 -- Issue #001

In today's issue, you'll find all the usual information:

Today's quiz question:

Which mineral in your horse's diet has the same symptoms for both a toxicity and deficiency?

If you are super curious (like me!), you can find the answer somewhere on UHN...

Or if you are patient, the answer will be published in next month's newsletter.

There are a number of new pages on UHN this month:

My favorite, by far, is the Black Oil Sunflower Seeds (BOSS) page. It was a lot of fun to write, and gives a lot of information about feeding BOSS to horses, since there really isn't a lot of information out there on horses and sunflower seeds.

-------------------------

Another great page to check out is the horse nutrition stories page. It has a collection of stories (small right now, but it'll grow!) from visitors to the site telling about how their increased knowledge of horse nutrition helped them help their horse. I really recommend reading it, as its truly inspiring.

-------------------------

Also new are a number of mineral pages:

Each of these pages covers the mineral in detail, including how your horse obtains it in his diet, toxicity symptoms, deficiency symptoms, and other tidbits of information about the mineral.

From AgNews, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture:

Hay Supplies Up, But Not Back to Normal
By Katie Pratt

LEXINGTON, Ky (Oct. 3, 2008)Even though the majority of the state is in the midst of a drought, hay supplies are up from last year. However, some livestock producers will still need to find an additional hay source to get through the winter, said Tom Keene, hay marketing specialist with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.

"Overall, we are in decent to fair shape on cattle hay going into the winter," he said. "Producers who use high quality hay to feed dairy cattle and horses will likely need to import additional quantities this year to have a sufficient supply." This much-needed moisture...

To read the entire article, visit the AgNews website.

This being the first issue of UHN: The Latest Happenings!, there are no results from a previous poll to report.

------------------------

After reading the News of Interest article, I began to wonder how many readers are suffering from a hay shortage...which leads me to this month's poll question:

POLL IS NO LONGER ACTIVE, BECAUSE RESULTS HAVE BEEN TALLIED.

Please see November's issue for the results.

Results will be published in next month's issue of UHN: The Latest Happenings!

If you liked what you read in this month's issue, consider "paying it forward" to your friends. No one will ever have to pay for a subscription to UHN: The Latest Happenings!, so forward it to all your horse-loving friends!

If a friend forwarded this to you, ensure that you receive all future issues by subscribing to UHN: The Latest Happenings! now!

Do you have comments or suggestions you would like to share? Have an idea for a future issue? Please send me an email via the contact form and let me hear about it!

footer for The Latest Happenings page