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...
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Growth, training and health in yearlings fed a forage-only diet
A Swedish study has examined growth, exercise response and health in 16 Standardbred colts fed a forage-only diet. The forage was grass...
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Supplement forage with forage
You can actually supplement forage with forage! This can be really useful in stables where you have horses with different energy and...
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Forage crude protein concentration affects horses’ insulin response
Early harvested forage has high energy content but also often high crude protein content and it seems that the amount of crude protein...
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How to use the ratio between protein and energy
In Sweden the horse’s energy requirement is given in metabolizable energy (ME), and the unit is mega joule (MJ). In other countries the...
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Forage-only diet and road transport positive for exercise performance
This study examined how the impact of diet and road transport to competition may affect performance in Standardbred horses. A diet...
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Enhanced energy metabolism with only forage and no concentrate
A Swedish study used a method called proteomics to analyse metabolic changes in muscle in trotters in training when fed a forage-only diet...
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Forage-only diets have positive effects on performance
A Swedish study has examined the impacts on body weight and exercise response in trotters in training when fed a forage-only diet compared...
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Forage-only diets have positive effects on exercise temperament and post-exercise recovery
This study examined the impacts on body weight and exercise response in trotters in training when fed a high energy forage-only diet...
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Horses’ fluid balance
Fluid is constantly lost from the body via urine and faeces, but fluid is also lost via evaporation from the body and the respiratory...
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