The Essentials of Horse Nutrition: An Intelligent Approach to Equine Feeds and Feeding - Paperback

by Shirle Ternan (Author), Kathleen Crandell (Editor), Kathleen Cavanagh (Author)

The Essentials of Horse Nutrition unlocks the secrets of a healthier, happier horse by helping readers understand the foundations of equine nutritional care. The book is an important resource toolkit containing the basic feeding considerations for horses, and introduces issues for minis, ponies and donkeys.

This comprehensive guide offers the following features:

- A Historical Perspective: Discover how horses have evolved and how their unique digestive system affects their health and dietary needs.
- Digestion Fundamentals: Explore the complex world of nutrient processing, from absorption to assimilation. The result is the production of the essential building blocks of life.
- Feeding Fundamentals: Uncover the science behind different feed types, including growing, harvesting, storage, and laboratory assay for nutrients.
- Supplement Fundamentals: Build an understanding of the roles of these ration add-ons for enhancement of performance and wellness, or to top up nutrient deficiencies.
- Personalized Feed Plan Formulation: Learn how to design a plan to support optimal growth, maintenance, performance, reproductive health, and for aging and geriatric horses. Develop feeding practices based on your horse's unique needs, lifestyle, environment, and feed availability.
- Individualized Care Fundamentals: Explore the care of special needs horses. Prevention and management of select nutrition-related conditions is briefly covered.