Collaborations
professional collaborations
The Canadian Horse Journal
educational content creation
Balanced Bay is very excited to announce a new regular collaboration. Madeline will be writing educational articles for The Canadian Horse Journal. If you don’t get this magazine, you’re missing out! It is packed with fantastic information to improve equine care and well-being.
Horse Canada
educational articles
Madeline is writing education articles for Horse Canada – Canada’s horse lifestyle website. These articles will be unique and are available on their website! Follow the links below to read them:
The Horse
Educational content creation
The Horse is a guide to equine health care that offers daily horse industry news and covers current horse-related research. Madeline is excited to be contributing to their nutrition content. Please see the links below to read some of the educational articles!
Ask the Horse
live podcast
Madeline was invited to be an expert panelist on Ask The Horse Live for their August episode. This episode dives in to what a microbiome is and the various strategies for promoting optimal microbiome health in your horse. Listen to the episode here.
Peer Reviewed
Research
If you’ve followed Balanced Bay for awhile, you will realize that easy keepers get discussed frequently. Check out this published research article that Madeline is an author on! Read it here.
Horses in the Morning
podcast
Madeline was invited to be an expert guest on Horses in the Morning. This episode discusses all about protein in the equine diet. Listen to the episode below.
Equine Nutrition
seminar presentation
In collaboration with Concord Equine (in Ottawa Ontario) Madeline will be ran a full day equine nutrition focused clinic. From foundation and functional nutrition to the newest research is was a fantastic science packed day!
Can-Am Equine Expo
Clinician
Madeline was invited to present at the Can-Am East Equine Expo. The event ran from March 22nd to March 24th, 2024. Madeline had 3 seminar presentations covering the foundational equine diet and diving into the research on functional supplements!
Thank you to all that attended!
OptiMizer
educational content creation
Balanced Bay has been working with OptiMizer on a variety of education projects. Madeline has used an OptiMizer for her personal horse for over 7 years! Their focus on forage-first coincides with the values of Balanced Bay.
Hoof Doctor
Educational blog posts
Hoof Doctor is an exciting collaboration. Madeline loves to collaborate with companies that share a passion for research and evidence backed information. In addition to event attendance such as the Laminitis Clinic and Can-Am, Madeline will also be writing monthly educational blog posts about nutrition in relation to hoof health.
Forage First
seminar presentation
In collaboration with Hay OptiMizer and System Equine Madeline presented on forage-first diets.
This lecture covered both why a forage-based diet is important to equine well-being and how to optimize your horse’s forage-based diet. This lecture was presented twice at the 2023 Can-Am Equine Expo and once as a seminar evening at System Equine.
Laminitis
Clinician
Madeline was invited to present on the nutritional management when a diagnosis of endocrinopathic laminitis has been made. She was honoured to be a clinician alongside Dr. Michael Steward, Steve McConnell and Dr. Stephanie Crawford. This clinic was held February 11-12th, 2023 at the Ancaster Fair grounds.
It was a great weekend full of learning with many passionate professionals and horse owners!!
Equine Guelph
course creation
Through attending the University of Guelph, Madeline had the opportunity to work with Equine Guelph on the creation of a course!
Senior horses are amongst her favourite to work with as it is so rewarding when they thrive into their elderly years.
The Rider
Writing Collaboration
Balanced Bay has been collaborating with The Rider newspaper. Madeline’s “Fridays with Finn” blog posts are featured as a column in each issue. Some of the articles featured in the newspaper will be exclusive to The Rider, therefore, make sure you subscribe!
