Re: Re: High fat diet

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Fat fed in that small an amount isn't enough to significently effect
motility---1.5 pounds of a 10% fat mix per vet check is, after all, less
than half a cup of fat, and well diluted with other things.  Steph Teeter
(among others) adds a bit of rice bran (20% fat content) as top dressing to
her mashes, and that amount isn't going to have a huge effect, either.  It's
more when you start dumping oil in, or syringing it in, that you'll see a
noticeable difference, more in some horses than others.

However, at the clinical level, there *is* a difference in rate of gastric
emptying  even between minor fat % in meals, you just have to be looking
under laboratory conditions to measure it.  Fiber content of the meal also
has an effect on gastric emptying, but while bulk fiber has the benefit of
triggering motilin release, and thereby encouraging gut motility, fat
doesn't.  Plus fat provides a satiety factor that tends to depress appetite
more than other feeds do, and the more you can get them to eat, the better
they'll do metabolically.

So fat content does affect all horses, whether or not that difference is
significant just depends on how detailed you want to get in looking.

Susan G


----- Original Message -----
From: Truman Prevatt, PhD <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>
To: <Trailrite@aol.com>
Cc: <mmieske@netonecom.net>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>; <krisolko@juno.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 5:22 PM
Subject: RC: Re: High fat diet


> I give a concentrate ration, 6 pounds a day, which is about 10% fat and
25% beet
> pulp so high in highly digestible fiber. I give this day in and day out,
during a
> ride and after. I use the same ration at vet checks (1.5 pounds at each
check).
> When I went to this regiment my horses gut started to move much better
during a
> ride. So I don't think that fat per se is the problem with all horses.
>
> Truman
>
> Trailrite@aol.com wrote:
>
> >     We have found that using oils or high fat products, including rice
bran,
> > during competion decrees the gut sound.  If fact, we only use high fat
> > products to fatten or add weight between endurance rides.  We then take
them
> > off of the high fat diet 72 hours before loading them in the trailer to
go to
> > an event.  We have talked to Susan G. about this and so far this has
worked
> > great for the last 2 years.  We have also backed this up with a number
of
> > blood test (Pride Project) and all seems good.
> >     When I say we, of course, we are dealing with a lot of different
horses
> > and riders, along with our own.
> >
> > Tammy Robinson
> > Trail-Rite Ranch & Products
> > 661/513-9269
>
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