Yes! When entering your horse's details you will be asked if your horse is an easy, normal or hard keeper and whether you would like him/her to lose, maintain or gain weight. Using this information, FeedXL adjusts your horse's energy (calorie) requirement and helps you balance a diet according to your horse's weight management needs.

Absolutely. So many problems we experience with our horses are a result of poor nutrition. Problems like weight loss, dull coats, brittle, shelly or diseased hooves, skin diseases, lameness, loss of appetite, bad behaviour, poor performance, windsucking, laminitis, colic, insulin resistance, bacterial infections, long recovery times after viral diseases like the Equine Influenza, diarrhoea and developmental problems in foals are ALL linked to diets that aren't meeting your horse's requirements.

No matter how good your horse's diet is, you will never improve your horse's performance above its genetic ability, or above your ability as a rider. However, feeding an unbalanced diet will prevent your horses reaching their genetic potential, and many horses are fed an unbalanced diet. So using FeedXL will make sure your horse is given every opportunity to perform at its best!

On first release FeedXL won't recommend diets for your horses. However, FeedXL v2, which will (all going well) be released by the end of the year will be able to recommend a diet for your specific horse, formulated according to its requirements, your feeding preferences and the feeds you have available. We are really excited about being able to provide this function in future and we'll keep everyone informed about this and other improvements and new features to FeedXL.

Every major feed and supplement that provides detailed information on what is in the feed is available in FeedXL to use in your horse's diet. If there is a product that you want to use that isn't in FeedXL, you just need to ask us to put it in for you. The nice thing about having this online system is we can put it into the software for you straight away.

Yes! We have put together extensive pasture data and even have photos to help you select the pasture most like the one your horse is grazing. FeedXL will even work out how much pasture your horses is eating for you. We do recommend you have your pasture analysed for a more accurate assessment of your horse's diet. Yes, when you select the hay you are using in your horse's diet you can then specify the quality. You will have prime, good, average, poor and weather damaged qualities to choose from.

FeedXL is online feeding and nutrition software based on the original "Equilize" horse nutrition software. Once you have subscribed, you simply tell FeedXL what your horse's specific details are, including its work load, whether it is an easy or hard keeper and if it has any nutrition related diseases and FeedXL will guide the development of a diet that will meet its nutrition needs perfectly. FeedXL is simple to use and accurate and allows you to subscribe online for as little as $15

Many People do Pilates to tone their muscles, improve their posture and help them lose weight. Creating lean muscle mass, as Pilates does, is one of the best ways to increase your calorie burning potential.

Relora® is for stress and stress-related eating. It should be used as an adjunct to an exercise and diet program. Relora® may help a person lose weight if he or she has excessive weight due to excessive stress. Excessive stress can lead to food cravings and increased fat, particularly in the belly. Relora® appears to help cut carbohydrate cravings when they are due to stress by normalizing hormone levels and producing a less stressed state.

We at Sawyer Creek are most interested in good matches between the prospective owner and the horse. It does us no good to sell you a horse that will not fit your goals! We first like to find out from you what your needs, goals, and preferences are. From there we can assess if we have something in our program that will meet those needs and if so, make a recommendation to you.

A horse can easily pull a wheeled vehicle that is six (6) times his own weight, however most carriage horses are used at only 25% of that capacity.

On an average it will take your horse six to eight weeks to put weight on. This if from the time when you first increased his feed.

The herbal ingredients formulated for the Curb Your Cravings topical patch will help increase your metabolic rate, curb food cravings, burn calories and accelerate weight loss. It's that simple!

Diuretics have no place in a weight loss program. Diuretics are used primarily for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure. They are also sometimes used to treat swelling in the feet, ankles and legs caused by mechanical problems involving the veins of the legs, though they are less effective in these conditions. In all these conditions, diuretics are not as effective as a low salt diet.

Most people confuse physique with health. This is why our culture is so obsessed with cosmetic surgery, sports, fashion, tanning, and cosmetics. Although physique and health are related, they are not identical. Physique is external, while health is internal. Physique focuses on muscles, while health focuses on organs. The LOVE Diet promotes health and self-acceptance. It will help you to achieve healthy organs and an ideal weight.

Adding whey protein to the diet is a great way to jump-start a weight loss program. Whey protein is a key ingredient in numerous weight loss and meal replacement products and whey protein isolate (with no fat or carbohydrates) is often the preferred choice. Studies have found that individuals who combine diets with leucine rich protein foods, like whey protein, and exercise have more lean muscle tissue and they lose more body fat.

There are a number of ways to manage eczema, all of which begin with an effective skin care routine. Having access to accurate information is important as this allows the person with eczema, or their carer, to make informed choices when managing the condition. The following are the more commonly used treatments. Further information on any of these can be obtained through the National Eczema Society.

oral appliance is a small plastic device that fits over the upper and lower teeth, similar to an orthodontic retainer or mouth guard. The appliance is worn in the mouth during sleep to prevent the soft tissues of the throat from collapsing and obstructing the airway. Oral appliances work by slightly advancing the lower jaw which in turn moves the base of the tongue forward and opens the airway to allow improved breathing and reduced snoring and apneas during sleep.

Ans. Truly speaking , our job at clinic - 2000 should end at making you lose weight . Instead we would like walk an extra mile along with you and make sure that you maintain the weight that you have lost. To achieve this you are made aware about the nutritive values of the food stuffs while undergoing the treatment which acts as a guide through your sub conscious mind and controls your eating habits in future also.

If your horse is on the trailer for a cross country trip, or any trip over 24 hours, they will start to loose about 4% of their body weight each additional 24 hours. Stress, lack of proper diet and water consumption coupled with lack of normal rest all contribute to this problem. Hay and water are all they will get on the trip and the drivers are constantly checking to see that they are alert, with heads up and regular body functions.