Nutrients
Most important nutrient needed for horses to survive.
What is water?
Organ where most nutrients are digested.
What is small intestine?
Water soluble vitamins.
What is vitamin C and B complex.
Fat soluble=vitamin A, D, E, K
This is not an option if horse overeat or eat something poisonous.
What is regurgitate food?
What is 1.2-2%? 1000 lbs=20 lbs.
Most dense source of energy.
What is fat?
Carbohydrates are most common source. Fat x3 amount. Normally 2-6% premixed feeds; higher fat feeds contain 10-12%.
Stomach capacity of average 1000 lb horse.
What is 3 gallons?
What is Vitamin E?
Population that require higher amounts of protein ration.
What is lactating mare or young foals?
Feed by weight or volume.
What is weight.
Ex. 1lb scoop of oats does not equal 1lb scoop of corn.
Highest amount of solute feed source.
What is corn?
Barely 2nd, oats 3rd
Organ horses do not have that make high fat diets difficult to digest/utilize?
What is gall bladder?
Takes 3-4 weeks to adjust increase fat in diet. Can digest about 20% fat.
Ration of calcium and phosphorus.
What is 2:1 ratio?
Signs of protein deficiency.
What is rough/course hair coat, weight loss, reduced growth, or milk production?
Excess protein=increased water intake, urinary, increased sweat loss during exercise
Average amount of pasture acres 1 horse needs.
What is 2.5-5 acres?
Sources of protein that can be easily added to diet.
What is soybean meal or alfalfa?
Horses are ____ herbivores.
What is non-ruminant herbivores?
(hind-gut fermentors)
This vitamins needs supplemented, if horse is stalled for 24 hours a day.
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
Signs of dehydration in a horse.
What are dry feces, dry mucous membranes, and decreased capillary refill time?
Percentage of protein in second cut grass hay.
What is 16-20%? LESS THAN FIRST CUT.
Amount of water horse needs per every pound of hay consumed.
What is 2 quarts of water?
Common places for impaction.
What is sternal or diaphragmatic flexures?
Somes cases where horse would need vitamin supplement.
What is feeding a high-grain diet, low quality hay, horse under stress (traveling, showing, racing, or not eating well (sick, after surgery)?
Feeding diet too high in energy can cause obesity increasing risk of conditions.
What is colic, laminitis, and exercise intolerance?
Most common protein supplement used.
What is soybean meal?