Video on Benefits of Grass and Legume Hays for Horses

Updated June 30, 2025

In this special episode of Ask the Vet, we asked Dr. Nerida Richards, PhD, Equine Nutrition Specialist and founder of FeedXL.com, to answer your nutrition-based horse health questions. In this video, Dr. Lydia Gray and Dr. Richards talk about different kinds of grasses and hays and each of their unique benefits. Nerida talks about “one of the fundamentally most important things when you’re putting a diet together for a horse” – watch the video and find out for yourself what that is.


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