Feed Ingredients

Equine diets should be based on forage (grass or hay) and therefore consumption of hay is important for stalled Read more

Grains (such as oats, corn, and barley) and grain byproducts (such as wheat bran, wheat middlings, and wheat mill run) Read more

At a workshop researchers presented their work on absorption of phytoestrogens in mares on clover-mixed pastures and alfalfa (lucerne) Read more

Directly measuring the amount of sugar in the horse’s ration is not easy to do and can be quite expensive. Instead, Read more

To accurately calculate the contribution that forage makes to the horse’s overall feeding program, forage intake as well as Read more

In the United States, barley ranks behind only corn and sorghum in terms of feed grain production. In general, barley has Read more

The energy-producing component of horse feed can be divided into three classes of nutrients: protein, fat, and carbohydrates. These Read more

Energy content is expressed as either digestible energy (DE) in calories or joules per kilogram or pound or as Read more

Fish oil significantly affected glucose clearance in the high-fat diet but had no effect on glucose clearance in the Read more

There is a vast array of options in the methods of processing and presentation of the various ingredients in Read more