At 5 a.m., six keepers file into the Houston Zoo's commissary kitchen and spend the next five hours chopping produce, portioning meat and weighing hay. By the time the rest of the zoo staff arrives, ...

Hay is expensive and many long hours go into harvesting, storing and feeding it. Don’t waste up to a third of it by using poor feeding practices. Believe it or not, cattle can trample, over consume, ...

To lighten the workload when feeding hay, we often take short cuts and leave some twine or net wrap on the bales. And whether we want them to or not, animals eat some of that twine. Please log in, or ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

Why do horses love carrots so much? Anyone who has ever pulled a crunchy carrot out of their pocket in the stable knows: Few other animals perk up their ears as quickly as a horse. But why carrots in ...