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Kentucky Equine Research continually conducts studies at its 150-acre research facility. Some of these results are presented at industry conferences or shared in peer-reviewed journals. Review some of our findings from the past 30 years below.
January 01, 2000

Incidencia De Ulceras Gastrica En Caballos

Crandell KM, JD Pagan. 2000. Incidencia de ulceras gastrica en caballos. In: Primer Curso Alimentacion y Nutricion Equina y Su Relacion Con La Clinica, Manejo y Entrenamiento. Asociacion Mexicana de Especialistias en Nutricion Animal A.C. 17-22.


January 01, 2000

Equilibrio Hidrico Y De Electrolitos Enel Caballo De Alta Escuela

Crandell KM, JD Pagan. 2000. Equilibrio hidrico y de electrolitos enel caballo de alta escuela. In: Primer Curso Alimentacion y Nutricion Equina y Su Relacion Con La Clinica, Manejo y Entrenamiento. Asociacion Mexicana de Especialistias en Nutricion Animal A.C. p. 109-115.


January 01, 2000

Assessing The Productivity And Nutritive Value Characteristics Of Newly Available Warm And Cool-season Grasses

Fike, J. H., C. Teutsh, O. Abague, and L. A. Lawrence. 2000. Assessing the productivity and nutritive value characteristics of newly available warm and cool-season grasses. Project No. 404. Virginia Agriculture Council.


January 01, 2000

Tying Up

Tying up; Huntington PJ, Duren S, Valberg S Australian Equine Veterinarian 18(1), 39-41, 2000


January 01, 1999

An Evaluation Of Corn Oil, Rice Bran And Refined Dry Fat As Energy Sources For Exercised Thoroughbreds

Fat has become a popular feed ingredient in performance horse rations. There are
a number of different fat sources available for use in horse feeds, and many of these such
as soybean oil and rendered animal fat have been extensively studied, Therefore, this study was conducted to compare the digestibility of several fat sources and evaluate how well they functioned as energy sources for horses
during exercise.


January 01, 1999

Vitamin E And The Performance Horse

Vitamin E is a non-toxic, fat soluble vitamin which has an important role in many physiological functions such as reproduction, immune response and nerve and muscle function.


January 01, 1999

Effect Of Selenium Source On Selenium Digestibility And Retention In Exercised Thoroughbreds

Performance horses compete in a wide variety of athletic events ranging from high speed racing to 100 mile endurance rides. These types of exercise are known to induce oxidative stress, leading to the generation of free radicals.


January 01, 1999

Effect Of Corn Processing On Glycemic Response In Horses

An experiment was conducted to evaluate how cracking, grinding or steam processing affects starch digestibility of corn, using glycemic response as an indirect measure of prececal starch digestibility.


January 01, 1999

Feed Type And Intake Affects Glycemic Response In Thoroughbred Horses

A 6 x 6 Latin square design experiment was conducted to determine glycemic response in horses fed six different feeds at 3 different levels of intake. Six Thoroughbred geldings were fed mixed grass hay and one of six diets: cracked corn, whole oats, sweet feed (45% cracked corn, 45% whole oats, and 10% molasses), sweet feed + 10% corn oil, alfalfa forage, or a low starch, high fermentable fiber mix (25% rice bran, 25% soy hulls, 25% wheat bran, and 25% soaked beet pulp).


January 01, 1999

A Comparison Of Grain, Oil And Beet Pulp As Energy Sources For The Exercised Horse

High-grain diets for the exercising horse were compared with diets which provided 15% of the total caloric intake from either vegetable oil or a highly fermentable fibre source (beet pulp). Six Thoroughbreds age 3 years were fed one of 3 diets or 5 weeks in a replicated 3 x 3 Latin square.


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