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24.01.2022 This article really resonates with me it explains what i feel when I treat.

24.01.2022 This is what I feel when I ask you to get a saddle refit.

23.01.2022 Five facts about naturally grazing/native/feral horses 1. Feral horses will consume 33 out of 100 different plants in a grazing area, in winter a high percentag...e of nutrients come from winter flowering shrubs such as gorse and purslane. How many different plants does your paddock/hedge contain? 2. Feral horses eat selectively from available high nutrient grasses such as paspalum or knotgrass (another grass classified as an invasive weed/grass), Wild barley and grasses from the millet family are of a very high value (contain good protein and phytosteroids great for horses with Cushings). 3. Feral horses do not seek out highly nutrient grass/plants if they are scarce but instead will choose to eat lower value grass/plants to maintain a high gut fill level, leaving it to the efficient G.I. tract to extract as many nutrients as possible from the food available. Lower value plants are very high in prebiotics, great for horses with gut problems. 4. Feral horses choose high quality low fibre components and then dilute them with large amounts of over -mature leaves and stems. They feed selectively on young green shoots but also need to eat less nutritive value feeds to maintain high levels of gut fill. The green shoots contain the most nutrients but the G.I. tract needs to be maintained full, so the feral horse chooses to top up on woody rubbish with a lower nutrient value until satiety/gut fill is reached. 5. The weight of the G.I. tract content represents 13-20% of live weight and intake is constrained by the need to be agile in order to avoid predators. Horses are very efficient at extracting nutrients from forage, they are designed to consume higher quantities of forage than other similar animals such as cattle and deer and they are also able to extract as many nutrients as possible from everything that is consumed. If horses eat less than their potential maximum intake then the rate of nutrient extraction also falls, meaning that putting a horse on a diet will result in nutrient deficiency as the quantity a horse consumes is directly related to the nutrient intake See more