ridecamp@endurance.net: how many Mcal does a competing endurance horse need..

how many Mcal does a competing endurance horse need..

Michael K Maul (mmaul@micro.ti.com)
Thu, 6 Feb 97 10:15:57 CST

i see several different views on the proper amount of Mcal for
the "average" competing endurance horse. i say average since there
certainly are individual differences.

these views are fairly different. anyone have comments on which of these
is appropriate?

mike
mmaul@micro.ti.com
houston, tx

***** from a post today ****
>sunflower. Coupled with some dried molasses, the horse gets about 16 mega
>calories (16million calories) which is a bit below what they need for hard work
>(a horse needs about 0.033mega calories per kilogram of body weight for
maintenance). In our case, the balance is made up from pasture. I
*****
.033 for a 900lb(409kg) arab is 13.5Mcal/day. this matches well with what
the feedstore says of 16Mcal for 1100 lb horse
*****

vs *** previous post

>It can be hard to achieve 12% fat by weight of the total diet, but it
>can be done with corn oil. A hard working horse weighing around 900
>lbs needs about 27-30 Mcal of DE each day .

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