Good quality hay
Whole oats
Vitamins and Minerals
For the racing stable
Good quality water

The Horse, by Nature a Grazing Animal

The Horse a Grazing Animal

The horse is a grazing animal and its original environment where savannah or steppe.

When the horse lived in a wild condition he could seek and eat of the herbs it needed to meet their nutritional needs.

Today the horse is dependent on humans to get their nutritional needs met.

This has led to today's horses are often given inadequate feed because of ignorance or misguided benevolence.

Horse owners should seek knowledge about how the horse digestive system works and with this knowledge as a basis to decide what appropriate food for their horses are.


The choice of forage is of great importance, since it should always be the basis for all horse feeding programs. Hay is the best choice of forage for a horse. Grass hay will contain for example; timothy, fescue, orchard grass and perennial ryegrass. Legume hay will contain for example; clovers and lucerne. Nutritionally, there is no great difference between grasses and legumes, except for the higher content of protein and minerals of legumes and a higher content of carbohydrates (including fibrous components) in grass species. A horse should eat 2.5-3 % of its body weight of forage a day, so a horse that weighs app. 1,000 lbs. should eat 25-30 lbs. of hay a day. (Hay contains app. 14 % water, which means that the DM value is 86 %. The calculations above are based on hay.)



Whole Oats

Whole oats is considered to be the most suitable cereal grain for horses. It is the most palatable cereal and it is easy for the horse to chew. Oat has been found to have the highest digestibility of starch compared with, for example barley and corn. Whole oats are high in carbohydrates and are also the best fat source for horses.

Although the total tract digestibility of starch is high in horses, it has been shown that the capacity for starch digestion in the small intestine of horses is limited. This means that the capacity for starch digestion in the small intestine can be overloaded. Starch escaping digestion in the small intestine may alter the microbial fermentation in the hindgut, which could lead to digestion dysfunction. Therefore, the amount of starch is recommended not to exceed 2-grams/kilogram of body weight and feeding occasion. (A horse that weighs app. 1,000 lbs. should not eat more than 2 lbs. of oats per feeding occasion.) Feed 2 lbs morning and 2 lbs evenings.


Beet Pulp






Water intake

