ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Cracked Corn and whole oats

Re: Cracked Corn and whole oats

Duncan Fletcher (dfletche@gte.net)
Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:37:46 -0700

How much grain is fed at one feeding? Has anybody measured the caloric
content of the manure?

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net

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> From: Tivers@aol.com
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: Re: Cracked Corn and whole oats
> Date: Tuesday, April 08, 1997 7:09 PM
>
> Just for a different perspective:
>
> The racehorses I work with typically consume at least 16 lbs of "sweet
feed"
> (corn, oats, barley, molasses, vitamin/mineral pellets, protein booster
to
> 16%) a day, plus an equal weight of mixed alfalfa/timothy.
>
> Bigger horses, working harder, consume more. For example, Stanerra,
winner of
> the Japan Cup, ate 25 lbs of grain per day. A STud Name Sue, 1995's 2yo
> pacing champion, consumed in excess of 22lbs of grain daily. Both ate as
much
> hay as grain.
>
> I can personally name at least 1,000 more winning racehorses that have
> thrived on diets of more than 15lbs of grain per day.
>
> I'm not suggesting this kind of diet is appropriate for endurance
horses--I
> don't know. But I can tell you that horses consuming that much grain do
not
> experience meltdown.
>
> ti

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