they eat a lot
Due to its ideal balance of nutrients and high fiber content, timothy is the gold standard of grass forages, but this is a close second.
What is orchard grass?
Feeding 3.5% of ideal body weight is appropriate for horses in these states of work.
What are heavy lactation and racing?
As compared to grass, these contain higher protein, calories, and minerals, but are lower in fiber.
What are legumes?
It’s the number one killer of horses.
What is colic?
To meet the dietary needs of horses at these two different levels of work, a starting place is to feed them an amount equal to 1% to 1.5% of their ideal body weight.
What are adult maintenance, and pregnant mares from the beginning of gestation up to the eighth month?
Sales of horse-related products in this industry is 2nd only to sales of human-related products in this industry.
What are supplements?
1%
What is the lowest percentage of its ideal weight in feed a horse can eat and still meet its nutritional needs?
A mare is pregnant for up to a year, but her foal grows the most during this period of gestation.
What is the last two to three months?
They’re high calorie additives, like beet pulp, oil, and molasses.
What are concentrates?
Performing this calculation provides a solid starting place when trying to decide how much feed a horse needs.
What happens when you multiply the animal’s ideal body weight in pounds by the percentage that correlates to the line of work specific to the horse?
Concentrates should constitute no more than this much of a horse’s diet.
What is 20%?
Horses spend this much time every day grazing.
What is 16 hours?
The high protein and calcium content in this forage makes it appropriate for lactating mares and their foals.
What is alfalfa?
A common term used to measure the way horse feed is rationed, hay breaks apart into these after bailing.
What are flakes?
Feeding equine this will result in the fewest digestive problems.
What is pasture?
Horses are typically fed this many meals a day, even though one more would be ideal.
What is two?
If offered feed ad libitum, most horses will consume less than this percentage of their respective ideal body weight.
What is two-and-a-half percent?
A forage-based diet rich in these will serve to satisfy the nutritional needs of most horses.
What is dried legume and grass hay, and pasture?
Horses' stomachs are releasing acid constantly, making the animals prone to these.
What are ulcers?
During their first couple weeks of life, foals experience scours as they build up the microbial colony that will populate this part of their body.
What is the hindgut?