33. Replay: Your horse's hindgut microbes and their impact on... everything! | Best of 2025

33. Replay: Your horse's hindgut microbes and their impact on... everything! | Best of 2025

To wrap up 2025, we’re resharing our most popular guest interview from Season 1 — and it’s a favourite for good reason.

In this episode, microbiology expert Dr Belinda Chapman and Dr Nerida take us inside your horse’s hindgut ecosystem.

Together, they look at what the microbiome actually is, why horses rely on microbes far more than we do, and how the balance between the fibre-loving “good guys” and the weedy, greedy starch-fermenters can influence everything from digestion and energy production to health, performance, and behaviour.

Dr Belinda and Dr Nerida also dive into some seriously fascinating concepts (in a very listenable way), including:

  • Why horses have a more complex microbiome than humans
  • The underappreciated role of anaerobic fungi in fibre breakdown
  • What “quorum sensing” is (and why it’s a bit mind-blowing); and
  • Why microbial diversity = resilience (and what that means in the real world)

If this episode helps you see feeding through a new lens, we’d love you to subscribe so you don’t miss the practical, science-backed episodes coming in 2026 - and we’d really love ypu to share this with a friend who loves a good horse nutrition rabbit hole as much as you do, they’ll thank you for it.💛

More about Quantal Bioscience: ⁠https://www.quantalbioscience.com/⁠

Hindgut microbiome testing with Dr Belinda: ⁠https://www.equigi.com/home⁠

Discover and download the MyHappy.Horse App: ⁠https://www.myhappy.horse

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16. Horse Nutrition Q&A: Winter Feeding, Pastures Problems & Weight Management

Dr. Nerida and Orla are back! And in this Q&A, they dive into some of the trickiest horse nutrition topics—because let’s face it, feeding horses isn’t always straightforward.Tune in as they explore:Ca...

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15. All about laminitis - keeping your horse safe

If you own a laminitis-prone horse or pony you know well the anxiety this condition creates for us as horse owners! In this essential episode, Dr. Nerida explains why a change in season creates the 'p...

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14. Do Joint Supplements for Horses Even Work? Part 2

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In this evidence-first episode, Prof. Brian Nielsen (Michigan State University) and graduate researcher Renee Harbowy join me to unpack what we really know—and don’t—about glucosamine, chondroitin and...

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13. Do Joint Supplements for Horses Even Work? Part 1

13. Do Joint Supplements for Horses Even Work? Part 1

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12. Horse Nutrition Q&A: Ulcers, Soy, Nitrates & More with Nerida and Orla

12. Horse Nutrition Q&A: Ulcers, Soy, Nitrates & More with Nerida and Orla

Join Dr. Nerida McGilchrist and long-time  friend and fellow horse industry veteran Orla for a lively and insightful Q&A. With decades of combined experience—ranging from pasture sampling to product d...

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11. How to Measure Hindgut Health in Horses

11. How to Measure Hindgut Health in Horses

How can you tell if your horse’s hindgut is healthy—or heading for trouble? In this episode, Dr Nerida explains three practical and science-backed ways to assess hindgut health: manure scoring, faecal...

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10. Four Rules for a Healthy Hindgut in Horses

Your horse’s hindgut microbes are the key to their health, happiness, and performance. In this episode, you’ll learn the 4 essential feeding rules that support a healthy hindgut—and why those rules ma...

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