Posts Tagged ‘horse’s digestive system’

by By Ken Wilkinson, Nutritionist

Many are familiar with the fact horses ferment fiber in the hind gut via the microbial population back there and derive most of their energy from that (at least at maintenance levels of activity).  If more energy is needed, we add higher energy, lower fiber feeds to the diet which are digested more up front.

 I would like to move even further back and start a discussion about how horses actually eat. Read the rest of this entry »