MANY of us who own and ride horses are lucky enough to live in rural areas, where issues of air quality and its impact on horse health are likely to be quite low on our list of concerns. Indeed, the UK as a whole tends to have relatively low levels of air pollution, certainly when compared to some more urban or industrialised countries.
But air quality is not just about levels of air pollution. In fact, what we feed our horses, where we house them, and what we bed them on can have a significant effect on the quality of air they breathe. Within the stable environment, levels of organic dust, endotoxin (from bacteria) and ammonia
