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To: one_less who wrote (13493)5/28/2002 5:23:25 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
No, we buy what's called sweet feed for the grain. It's a mixture of corn and oats and molasses. It comes in protein mixes of from 10% to 16%. Nursing mares and horses being worked hard need the 16%, lazy one's like ours get by with 10%. Too much protein can founder a horse or give them too much energy.

Then you have to figure in the protein in the hay you feed. Brome and orchard hay don't have as much as alfalfa does and Timothy hay is usually only fed to race horses. In winter we feed more hay as there isn't any grass to graze and digesting hay builds body heat.
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