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Optimizing Feeding Programs for Performance Horses

Explore energy requirements and feeding strategies for performance horses to enhance their performance, health, and endurance. Discover correlations between nutrition and horse behavior. Topics include supplements, electrolytes, and feeding during various conditions.

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Optimizing Feeding Programs for Performance Horses

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  1. Reading a Table – “Trends”

  2. Correlations

  3. Correlations

  4. The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome Mike Adams, Biology Department Eastern Connecticut State University Fig. 1 – The relationship between exam, student grade and Family Death Rate.

  5. Topics of Interest • Feeding programs for performance horses • The day of competition/work • Electrolytes • Endurance vs. speed • Pack trips • During trailering

  6. Topics of Interest • Supplements • Blood builders • Calming agents • Joint support • Minerals • Prevention of vices

  7. Topics of Interest • Grass founder • Feeding for proper growth/DOD • Reducing/Increasing BCS • Feeding during cold weather • Snow as water source • Colic

  8. Topics of Interest • Diet/behavior interactions • How NRC requirements are determined • Age, breed, gender • Feeding for breeding/gestation • Feeding for metabolic disorders

  9. Topics of Interest • Hindgut microbes • Poisonous plants • Feeding management of large herds

  10. Feeding Programs for Performance Horses

  11. Energy Requirements – Maint. – NRC, 1989 • 200 – 600 kg BW • DEm, Mcal = 1.4 + 0.03 kg BW

  12. Energy Requirements – Maintenance • “Minimum” requirement • DEm = 30.3 kcal DE/kg BW • Confined, sedentary lifestyle • Docile, nonreactive temperament • Older animals • Limited voluntary activity

  13. Energy Requirements – Maintenance • “Average” requirement • DEm = 33.3 kcal DE/kg BW • Alert temperament • Moderate voluntary activity • Stabled horses turned out several h • Open broodmares, resting performance horses

  14. Energy Requirements – Maintenance • “Elevated” requirement • DEm = 36.3 kcal DE/kg BW • Nervous temperament • High level of voluntary activity • Stallions, young adults that are noticeably active

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