Equine Nutrition
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Do you want your horse to function properly and give its pre-eminent performance?
Check your equine nutrition first to ensure whether the horse feeding is sufficient to meet your horse’ nurturing needs or not.
Understanding horse feed is vital if you want your horse to remain healthy and active for years. Forage is the horse’s main feed, but only forage is insufficient to provide your equine with necessary vitamins and minerals.
Horses are herbivores and have different digestive mechanisms from other animals. Its digestive tract is quite long and sensitive. Don’t poison your equine with cattle feedstuff.
Do you want to fine-tune your horse feeding? Hire an equine nutritionist to devise a whole plan for your horse feeding. EqueVets have trained professionals who assess horse feeding thoroughly and provide feasible solutions accordingly.
How Can You Improve And Maintain A Proper Horse Feeding?
Equine feed must consist of six fundamental nutrients; carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals and water.
Water
Continuous, clean and fresh water supply is of supreme nutritional value, as horses cannot live without it. The amount of water varies according to horse activity, exercise and temperature.
Fats
Fat is a rich source of energy. In the horse industry, a fat-rich diet has gained much popularity. It can be vegetable oil or plant fats (i.e. rice bran, flaxseed, soybeans etc.).
Proteins
Proteins are responsible for body growth. Soybean meal and alfalfa are the two primary protein sources for a horse. Digestion of protein is difficult for horses. So, improve the protein quality without increasing its quantity. How’s it possible? Use the feed with lysine added.
Vitamins And Minerals
Fresh, clean and high-quality forage is enough to fulfil your equine vitamins and minerals supply. Use vitamins supplement when your horse is sick or indulge in high exercising.
Is your horse not eating well? Use “ration-balancer” to satisfy the essential minerals, vitamins or protein necessities. If your horse has indulged in high sweat loss activity, use salt and potassium supplements.
Don’t you know the required quantity for supplements? Don’t worry. EqueVet provides an excellent equine veterinary service to solve equine feed related problems.
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates constitute the chief share in horse feeding. Use feed with a high concentration of soluble fibre and low starch and sugar proportion.
Horse Nutrition Change, How Often?
Change your equine diet slowly and gradually. Take two to four weeks for feed alteration. The rapid change in diet plan can make your horse sick.
No doubt, a nutrition-rich diet is mandatory for your equine health, but make sure that you do not exaggerate it. A high proportion of energy-rich diet can make your horse obese. Obesity, in turn, can enhance the risk of colic, laminitis and exercise intolerance.
Where to Get Horse Nutrition Consultation?
Don’t know whether your horse feed is good or bad? Get a consultation from EqueVets qualified equine nutritionists. Equestrian Veterinary Services is fully aware of horse feeding and current nutrition trends.
Don’t forget to consult an equine veterinarian at least once a year to get your horse tested.