Horses have evolved to eat a natural diet, is it not only cost -effective, but also much healthier for your horse?
The most important part of feeding your horse is to maintain health and good and full control..Every food food will be the same.
Horses have unique digestive systems that are designed to treat good quality food.
As you can see, the stomach of a horse is only a small part of the entire digestive tract., stomach ulcer and binding -up -can result.
Different forms of roughage, different benefits
Grazing
Good grazing is the ideal roughage for many horses.Horses move on grazing and continuously eat small amounts of grass, the way horses.Grasslands can be used to meet the roughage needs of the horses.
Gras
Grashing of good quality is the individual feed with the best balance between proteins, energy and fiber for horses.% of the body weight of good quality grass hay during the day.
Belf -plant is er
Lucerne and Clover are examples of legumes.Contains more proteins, energy, calcium and vitamin A than grass.Including a few legumes (20-50%) in rations for cultivation and work horses and breeding march benefit from these extra nutrients.Until the center of the flowering stage.
Optical fiber
Perhaps an option, but it is rare to find a feed that does not contain by -Products.
Problems associated with modern compound feeds
Many of the standards for horses nutrients are extrapolated from the agricultural industry, where the most important reasons are to convert food in meat or milk as cheaply as possible.
This approach is in principle short.Not only are the principles inappropriate because of the physiological differences between the species, but there is concern about the long -term safety of horses in some of the products used.
Many concentrations contain too many by -products such as sugar and other inappropriate ingredients.That raw materials are not always explained in a way that makes their nature clear without special knowledge.
What now?
The best way to feed the horse is to feed the gross he needs such as Hay and Lucerne (Alfalfa), with the concentration for more energy consisting of grain such as oats and barley., because they feel that it is warming up, the effect on the horse is much more predictable if it is fed as part of a natural food regime.
Cold pressed linseed oil or even cold pressed chia seed oil can also be used for more energy, and these have the extra advantage that they are easily digested and contain little or no proteins.acids.Better from the two with a relationship of 4: 1. The other key factor that must be added to the diet is a daily formula to offer the food support that he or she does not receive via a standard natural diet.
Problems associated with modern grasslands.
The horse is a browser animal and must receive a number of roughage as part of its diet to maintain good health..
Development
The horse precedes the person who inhabits on the ground with approximately.50 million years.Move from forests to the open plains.
- The digestive system has been developed to divert optimum nutrition and health from a variety of high fibers, low energy knew grass and herbs.
- Like other planters of the open plains, the horse became a "ray" food, where large rare meals were incompatible with a fast flight campaign of predators.
The diet of the modern horse is often unsuitable for these important physiological needs.As we have seen, the horse can no longer gain access to different grasses and it is probably only fed two or three times a day.It must also be supplied in the form of grains or other concentrate food, to which his digestive system is not fully adapted, so experience and care are needed to use them.
Mond
The digestive process starts in the mouth.
The sensitive lips of the horse with their accompanying whiskers are very well adapted to find, assess and handle the food that he wants to eat, the sensitivity, mobility and power of the lips are extremely.
The edges, together with the lips and tongue, are used to grab the food and put them in the mouth for grinding by choosing or back tooths.Mastic to break down the hard silicon fibers.
The constant process of grinding such food had the effect of wearing the teeth.That modern foods do not perform this function correctly.
Hay
Hay is dried grass and a good source of roughage.Although hay is a staple of the diet for most horses, the quality is often not sufficiently considered.
The quality of hay depends on five factors:
- The grass.
- The country where it is being cultivated.
- The time when the grass is cut.
- The production process itself.
- The storage conditions.
There are different types of hay available.
Good hay and good grazing is crucial for supplying grasses that offer essential nutrients.
Lucerne (Alfalfa) is increasingly being used as horse food.
Havre
Oats is the traditional grain food for horses, and they can be used as the total concentrate area of the food and can easily be given to the most sensitive horses.They can handle horses with good teeth, and feeding whole oats are far cheaper.
Happened
Barley is known as fat food because it contains a higher starch and protein level than oats.Destroy natural nutrients.It can also be micronized, which can have the same effect.
Oat a lucry chaff
Chaffs made from Hays can be used to give bulk to the diet and also to stop the horse that cuts the food, but most chaff are not of the highest quality and can be very dusty.
How much to feed?
How much does a horse have to be fed to be calculated based on the weight of the animal and the amount of work..
In general, a horse will eat .2.5 percent of its body weight per day, intended for a dry matter.This is a rule of thumb that some horses need much more, others do well with less.
After calculating the total necessary nutrition day, the next step is to determine the relationship between roughage and concentrate.This depends on the amount of work that is performed
Water
About 60 percent of the horse's body tissue is water.
The local water supply will vary depending on the season.
The crane is another matter, but it will still vary in chemical makeup, depending on the season and the country in the country where it comes from.And saves a lot of time and effort, but just like with buckets, they have to be kept clean and free of pollution, but the most important thing is that you do not know exactly how much water your horse eats, which is important.
Unsuitable raw materials
Stroop
Molasse is a sticky, thick black liquid that is a by -product in the sugar refinagic industry.Because they can cause digestive and other problems.Some feeds contain up to 10 percent of the molasses.
Fish and duration by -Products
Fish and duration by -ProductsThe use of animal and fish by-products in horse food is not compatible with the horse.
Reed
Sugar beet is usually supplied as dried pellets or strips that must be softened before use.
Other by -Products
There are approximately 100 different by -products from the food production industry available for use in horse food.This must be carefully evaluated when considering its use as part of natural food.
Artificial or laboratory produced ingredients
Unwanted additives such as artificial vitamins, dyes, aromas and other treatment equipment are often added to many horse feeds.
However, most of them are used by -products often, but whose name can be misleading.
Here are some examples:
By -product of the flour production obtained from the screen cut wheat or spell.
By -product of flour obtained from shielded slopes of wheat or spelled.
By -product of oatmeal milling consisting of hull, flowering material, soft fabric and screen dust, all with the ground.
By -Product from the second polishing of sliced rice.Dried by -product of the production of cornflour.It consists mainly of gluten obtained during the separation of starch.
Product derived from the remains of the manufacture of sebum and other fats of animal origin.
These types of by-products are used in the non-regulated food industry in many different types of pre-mixed foods and pellets
Feeding by -products of any description for horses is not recommended;
Need help?
If you want to cut all the confusion about feeding your horse, please contact us on 01183 247471 or e -Mail hello@hiform.equine.co.uk
At Hi Form UK, all guidance is provided and controlled by our qualified team of nutritionists, clinical nutritionists and medical herbalists at Hi Form Australia.
Antoinette Foster Dip.ut.Equine nutrition therapist and medical herbal scientist, product formulator, advanced nutrition therapy and genetics diploma.Copyright Hi form 2020
