HOW TO EVALUATE YOUR HORSE’S REQUIREMENT?
You have to know:
Horses on artificial bedding (shavings, flax, etc.) No straw in the stable for the horses to feed on (less chewing activity; risk of cellulose deficiency, etc.)
How to evaluate nutritional content? Nutritional content in the basic ration excluding combined feeds:
Nutritional content to be sourced from combined feeds in order to supplement the basic ration:
Typical ration calculation:
Horses weighing 500 kg, undergoing moderate work: 1 to 2 hours a day, walking, trotting, cantering, require: 7.5 EFU 480 g of EDNM 10 to 12 kg of DM