For calorie content: corn, barley, oats (I think that is the order).
But, corn has the problem of going moldy faster than any other grain.
Barley has more nutrients than the others. A higher amount of each that is.
A recent study showed oats asd giving some horses a high. So they tend
to be more hot, spooky, etc. than normal.
I tend to feed a mixed sweet feed, multiple grains in molasses.
If you have problems with the local feed store, and local products, you
can always change over to the national products.
The reason the corn is crimped or rolled is that horse's teeth are not
that hard. So they can't break up the corn well enough to get all
the nutrition out of the corn. If you feed whole corn, you'd find that
the corn kernels go right through the horse, and come out whole in the
manure.
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