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By OKFR Staff The first cold morning of fall can send a horse owner reaching for a blanket long before the horse needs one. You feel a 45-degree morning and think winter. A healthy horse with a good hair coat may feel something much closer to ordinary weather. A horse’s winter coat is built to […]

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By Ann Asher For years, fall garden advice read like a cleanup list: cut everything down, rake every leaf, haul off the stems and leave the beds tidy for winter. A neater yard may please people, but it can remove exactly what birds and beneficial insects need. Standing seed heads are winter food. Coneflowers, sunflowers, […]

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By Ann Asher A horse covered in hives sends an owner back through the previous 24 hours. Was it the new bag of feed? A different fly spray? Something blooming in the pasture? Sometimes the answer is obvious. Other times, finding the cause takes real detective work. Allergy signs vary from horse to horse. One […]

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By Savannah Magoteaux Two bales can look almost identical and feed very differently. Color, smell and leafiness tell part of the story, but a forage test tells you what your cattle are actually being offered. If you buy hay by the ton or are trying to stretch winter feed, that little lab sheet can be […]

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By Savannah Magoteaux A heavy crop of acorns under an oak tree usually looks more like a sign of fall than a livestock problem. For most cattle in most years, that is all it is. Trouble starts when acorns stop being an occasional bite and become a meaningful part of the diet. Oak leaves, buds […]

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