Nutrients
Most important nutrient needed for horses to survive.
What is water?
Organ horses do not have that make high fat diets difficult to digest.
What is gallbladder?
Takes 3-4 weeks to adjust increase fat in diet. Can digest about 20% fat.
Water soluble vitamins.
What is vitamin C and B complex?
Fat soluble=vitamin A, D, E, K
Leading cause of death in horses.
What is colic?
Feed by weight or volume.
What is weight?
Ex. 1lb scoop of oats does not equal 1lb scoop of corn.
Ratio of calcium to phosphorus.
What is 2:1 ratio?
Horses are ____ herbivores.
What is non-ruminant?
(hind-gut fermentors)
Most common source of energy from feed.
What is carbohydrates?
~Fat x3 amount energy.
Compared to humans, horses are unable to ______ if it overeats or eats something poisonous.
What is regurgitate food?
The stomach will rupture before vomiting will occur.
____ energy is the content of ration that is calculated by gross energy in feces from gross energy consumed from the animal.
What is Digestible Energy?
This vitamin needs to be supplemented if a horse is stalled for 24 hours per day indoor.
What is Vitamin D?
Only obtained from sunlight.
Vitamin E=fresh green forages
Vitamin K/B-complex=gut microbes
Vitamin C=fresh vegetables/fruits and liver
Stomach capacity of average 1000 lb horse.
What is 4 gallons.
This nutrient commonly used in feed, has the highest energy source.
What is corn?
Barely 2nd, oats 3rd
As Fiber percentage increases, the energy decreases.
You find blister beetles in alfalfa hay you just fed to your horse this morning. Later, you notice sores and blisters on the tongue and mouth likely due to what agent excreted by the beetles.
What is canthardin?
Feed rate in percentage per day of roughage for average BW (1000lbs).
What is 1-2%? 1000 lbs=20 lbs.
at least 1% BW per day.
First limiting essential amino acid.
What is lysine?
Organ where most nutrients are digested.
What is small intestine?
New grain should be mixed with old grain at this percentage.
What is 1/4 (25%) new at a time.
Avoid mixing cattle and horse feed pans to prevent ____ poisoning.
What is ionophore poisoning?
Maximum amount of grain (lbs) per feeding.
What is 6-8 lbs?
Example of simple sugars with 1 sugar molecule.
What is fructose or glucose?
(monosaccharides)
Common place for fecal impaction.
What is sigmoid flexure?
You have 500 kg horse. According to the NRC, the crude protein requirement is 912 g/day. You feed your horse 20 lbs of alfalfa hay/day. The alfalfa contains 96.4 g/lb. Please determine your horse's crude protein and if it meets NRC requirement.
Feeding a diet too high in energy can cause obesity, increasing risk of what condition.
What is Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS)?.
Average amount of pasture acres 1 horse needs.
What is 2.5-5 acres?