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    Forage for horses: For health and performance

    By Sara Muhonen

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    About this ebook

    Does the horse drink more or less when eating wet silage? What happens when the horse is fed excess protein? What affects forage digestibility? How do different forages affect the horse’s performance? These questions and a lot more is discoursed in this book. Several major research studies on feeding forage to horses that have been performed during the last years are summarized here. Forage is the important base in horse feeding – take part of the knowledge and feed your horse for health and performance!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateMay 28, 2013
    ISBN9789174638943
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    Forage for horses: For health and performance
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    Sara Muhonen

    Agr.dr. Sara Muhonen received her postgraduate education at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences with her thesis ‘Metabolism and Hindgut Ecosystem in Forage Fed Sedentary and Athletic Horses’. After her doctoral work she did her postdoctoral project at USC Nutrition du Cheval Athlète – AgroSup Dijon – INRA, France. Now Sara runs the company Equi-Nutrition, for more information visit www.equi-nutrition.com

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