Ep. 39: How to Conduct a Basic Diet Assessment on Your Horse

With your horse’s estimated body weight and condition score in hand you now have what you need to move on towards assessing their diet. In this episode we discuss.

  • how to determine what your horse’s minimum forage intake should be each day
  • how to determine their actual forage intake
  • the importance of weighing everything that you are feeding your horse
  • how to use the feeding directions on bagged feed along with body weight and condition to determine if you are feeding the correct kind of concentrate feed
  • the kinds of changes to consider making if things aren’t what they should be
  • and so much more!

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