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Give the right forage to the right horse

Posted by on Dec 30, 2018 in Behaviour, Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora, Performance | 0 comments

Forage and forage is not the same thing. How well horses can digest forage depends on the forage’s cell wall content. Cell walls are...

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Forage buffers the hindgut

Posted by on Mar 16, 2018 in Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

The feeding practices can have impact on the ecosystem in the hindgut of the horse. This study examined the effect on the hindgut...

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Horses are fantastic hindgut fermenters

Posted by on Jan 15, 2018 in Behaviour, Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

This study compared different forage intakes using sedentary horses. Eight adult Icelandic horses were used and all horses were tested on...

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Differences between starch and sugar

Posted by on Aug 15, 2017 in Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

Starch are carbohydrates and they are in high concentrations in cereals, i.e. oats, barley, wheat and rye. In the small intestine starch...

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Starch rich concentrates impair hindgut environment

Posted by on Jul 30, 2017 in Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

The horse is a monogastric herbivore, a hindgut fermenter, and is depending on the fibrolytic microflora in caecum and colon to ferment...

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Forage crude protein content and the hindgut ecosystem

Posted by on Nov 30, 2016 in Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

Early harvested forage has high energy content but often also high crude protein content, which can result in an excessive crude protein...

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The horse’s vitamin requirements

Posted by on Oct 14, 2016 in Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora, Performance | 0 comments

Vitamins are organic compounds that are essential and have metabolic functions but are not degraded as energy sources. They participate in...

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More stable intestinal flora with forage-only diets

Posted by on May 28, 2016 in Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

This study examined the impacts on microbial flora in faeces in trotters in training when fed a high energy forage-only diet (haylage,...

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Cold weather increases forage requirements

Posted by on Dec 15, 2015 in Forage, growing horses, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

The horse is a homeothermic animal which regulates its body temperature. When the horse is within the temperature range where it does not...

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Fibre and the hindgut environment

Posted by on Nov 30, 2015 in Forage, Health, Intestinal microflora | 0 comments

This study examined the impact on the hindgut ecosystem when horses were fed early harvested grass haylage, lucerne haylage and the more...

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