horse feed?
I’m going on vacation with my horse for a weekend and he is staying at a horse hotel they provide morning feed but you have to bring you own feed for the day I don’t have enough room for bails of hay in my trailer so what i was wondering is there other horse feed that i can feed my horse like pellets or something
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Two readily available sources of feed for horses are beet pulp and cottonseed hulls. Beet pulp can make up to 45% of the total diet of a horse. Normally beet pulp is fed to substitute
for 50% of the hay being fed. Beet pulp has a crude fiber and digestible energy content similar to alfalfa hay for horses. The 1150 pound horse doing light work can be maintained on 9.75 pounds of good quality Bermudagrass hay and 9.75 pounds of a grain-sweet feed that contains 10-12%
crude protein and 5-8% crude fiber. If beet pulp were used at up to 25% of the diet, the horse could be fed as follows:
Pounds/day
Bermudagrass hay 4.90
Beet pulp 4.90
Grain mix
(10-12% protein, 5-8% crude fiber) 9.75
The same 1150 pound horse doing moderate work could be fed as follows:
Pounds/day
Bermudagrass hay 5.75
Beet pulp 5.75
Grain mix
(12% crude protein, 5-8% crude fiber) 11.00
Cottonseed hulls fed with a grain mix can make up 20% of the total diet by weight. We (The University of Georgia Horse Center) have successfully fed diets containing 20% cottonseed hulls with no hay. Cottonseed hulls have a fiber content twice as high as Bermudagrass hay. Cottonseed hulls could be used to feed the 1150 pound horse doing light work as follows:
Pounds/day
Bermudagrass hay 6.00
Cottonseed hulls 4.50
Grain mix
(10-12% C. Protein, 5-8% C. Fiber) 10.25
The same horse doing moderate work could be fed as follows:
Pounds/day
Bermudagrass hay 7.50
Cottonseed hulls 5.50
Grain mix
(12% crude protein, 5-8% crude fiber) 12.00
Other sources of roughages that can help reduce the amount of hay to feed include; alfalfa cubes and pellets, and soy hulls. Alfalfa cubes can completely replace long stem hay but it is best to substitute at the 50% level. Alfalfa pellets can safely substitute for up to 25% of long stem hay. Alfalfa products are much higher in digestible energy, crude protein, and calcium than grass hays so this must be taken into account when replacing or substituting for the grass hays.
Soy hulls will have a similar nutrient content of grass hays. It has been suggested by one researcher that soy hulls can replace up to 50% of the forage in a horse diet. Most recommendations are to feed no more than 25% of the forage level due to chew factor and potential sorting out of the soy hulls.
There are many options and combinations you can put together to feed your mature horses. The key is to make sure the roughages total 50% (or greater) of the total intake of feed.
The second key is to make sure that the alternative roughages used do not make up over 20-25% of the total
diet.
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