Equine nutrition for beginners

If you have got no or very little experience with horses or if you are planning to become a horse owner sometime in the nearby future then you need to quite a lot about equine nutrition. You see, when you take horse riding lessons, when you pay someone else to look after a horse, you don't need to worry about what happens to the horse when you get home. Someone else has to feed him, clean his stalls, look after horse's health and so on. Now, in today's post I am not going to talk with you about horse care, but instead I want to spend a little bit more time talking about the basics of equine nutrition.

If you want to make sure that your horse's is healthy and if you want to make sure that your horse looks and feels great, then you have got to take equine nutrition seriously. Horses are strong and powerful animals, but their digestive systems are not that impressive and they are somewhat delicate. For example, horses, unlike animals such as dogs or cats, cannot regurgitate food which means that in case they will eat something poisonous, vomiting is not an option. In addition to this they have got very complex digestive system and a large system. The efficiency of horse's digestive system relies on the right balance of beneficial microbes that are "key players" of the horse's digestive system. If you want to make sure that your horse's digestive system runs smoothly and efficiently and if you want to make sure that your horse does not get colic, you need to ensure that you provide your horse with a clean, highest quality feed.

In order to improve the efficiency of your horse's digestive system, you might want to start supplementing your horse's diet with a high quality horse feed balancers. Equine feed balancers contain pre and pro biotics which improve the efficiency of horse's digestive system. To learn more about feed balancers have a look at my article What You Need To Know About Equine Nutrition