Give the right forage to the right horse
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...
Read MoreForage buffers the hindgut
The feeding practices can have impact on the ecosystem in the hindgut of the horse. This study examined the effect on the hindgut...
Read MoreHorses are fantastic hindgut fermenters
This study compared different forage intakes using sedentary horses. Eight adult Icelandic horses were used and all horses were tested on...
Read MoreDifferences between starch and sugar
Starch are carbohydrates and they are in high concentrations in cereals, i.e. oats, barley, wheat and rye. In the small intestine starch...
Read MoreStarch rich concentrates impair hindgut environment
The horse is a monogastric herbivore, a hindgut fermenter, and is depending on the fibrolytic microflora in caecum and colon to ferment...
Read MoreForage crude protein content and the hindgut ecosystem
Early harvested forage has high energy content but often also high crude protein content, which can result in an excessive crude protein...
Read MoreThe horse’s vitamin requirements
Vitamins are organic compounds that are essential and have metabolic functions but are not degraded as energy sources. They participate in...
Read MoreMore stable intestinal flora with forage-only diets
This study examined the impacts on microbial flora in faeces in trotters in training when fed a high energy forage-only diet (haylage,...
Read MoreCold weather increases forage requirements
The horse is a homeothermic animal which regulates its body temperature. When the horse is within the temperature range where it does not...
Read MoreFibre and the hindgut environment
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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