Fw: rice bran debate

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

I received the following reply from Dr. Pagan to my post copied to ridecamp.
I am forwarding Dr. Pagan's reply which was not copied to ridecamp. I have
omitted the article he attached. It is available at
http://www.ker.com/archive/proceedings/sc97/13/index.html.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Joe D. Pagan <pagan@ker.com>
To: Duncan Fletcher <dfletche@gte.net>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: rice bran debate


>Dear Duncan,
>
>Thanks for your e-mail.  You're right, the NRC feed ingredients are
>really bad and they probably aren't going to get much better.  There is
>no money for a new NRC committee for horses right now, and when one
>comes, the ingredient section is always an after thought.  We have done
>a large amount of research looking at digestibility and DE content of
>all sorts of feeds.  I am attaching a paper from our web site archives
>about calculating DE from chemical composition.  Go to our web site
>(http://www.ker.com/library) to find more papers.  We also have a book
>and CD (Advances in Equine Nutrition) that contains a lot of that
>information.
>
>Regarding excess calcium intake, too much of any nutrient is probably
>not good.  The only way excessive calcium intake will probably occur is
>when large amounts of alfalfa are fed.  In this case, protein intake is
>excessive and I could make a better case for that being detrimental to
>endurance horses than calcium._
>
>You and the other subscribers to Ridecamp seem pretty switched on about
>nutrition. That's great and I hope it continues.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Joe D. Pagan, Ph.D.
>President
>Kentucky Equine Research
>