Our Most Popular Horse Health Topics

Across every article, we dig into the real‑world questions Australian horse owners face - from feed myths to supplement confusion, from metabolic management to welfare‑first horsemanship. Here’s a look at the topics you have wanted to know about most.

Popular Horse Health Topics:

Help or Hype? In this article we compared nutrition supplements claiming to help with some of the most common problems - which work and which are baloney, or at least are too expensive for the results they actually achieve. 

Grit Happens - Causes of sand colic and enteroliths, and how you can prevent it through management practices and nutrition.

Salt Deficiency is More Common Than You Think - the role of salt in the body, and amounts required by horses.

Joint Supplements We Don’t Use and Why - we compared some of the most popular joint supplement ingredients - what the research says about their efficacy and a price comparison per-dose on different brands.

Dapples - this was a surprise. We had a very high read-rate explaining how dapples occur, and which are the best supplements for achieving them.

Nutrition Myths We Finally Put to Bed

What else have we covered? Some of the most persistent feeding misconceptions, including when supplements help, and when they’re just expensive fillers.

The truth about protein, energy, and weight gain

How to read feed tags without falling for marketing spin

Why “low sugar” doesn’t always mean safe for metabolic horses.

Which form of magnesium is the best for horses.

Bogus treatments for Queensland Itch.

Understanding starch.

Safe forage strategies in Australian conditions

Supplements that actually support metabolic health 

Your feedback helps us shift the conversation from trends to science‑backed, practical feeding.

In the seven years we have been regularly writing and publishing articles, we have focused on equine property management and nutrition, but recently we also included some articles about behaviour.

In Is My Horse Telepathic? we explored how having very clear intentions results in readable, predictable cues for the horse.

In Understanding Windsucking Behaviour we looked at the research on what management practices and experiences in early life are common in developing these undesirable behaviours.

And our most recent email Sorry Spirit was about training horses to be reliable when handled by all people including children, rather than to only be responsive to one human.

These emails sparked some of the most heartfelt replies - proof that owners want to understand their horses deeply, not just manage symptoms.

We’re always building our library of articles around the real questions horse owners are asking, so we’d love to hear what you’re curious about - the myths you want busted, the topics you wish someone would explain simply, and the everyday problems you want clearer answers to. Your questions shape what we create. Get in touch at info@soundadvice.shop Nothing is too simple or too complicated. All our horses thrive when we all learn and share our knowledge together.