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Hi Linda,
We don't feed any corn to the horses anymore. According to the Davis',
Doc Sweeney said that Fjords shouldn't have corn. "They don't need
it". I've done some reading and it seems that the sugar in corn is
easily "converted to energy" in the blood stream making horses hot right
after feeding. It seems that with other grains this happens more
gradually and there aren't the peaks in activity related to sugars. I'm
definitely paraphrasing here and I'm sure there is a lot more to it but
that is what I got out of the stuff I read a few years back. The reason
corn is used in horse feeds is because it is cheaper than other grains.
We use all oats here (with a mix of calcium, phosphorus, salt, soy bean
meal (protein) and vitamins and minerals).
Mark
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re: oil in feed........I mix 4/1 oats and corn with two gallons of soy oil ....
increase the corn to 3/1 in winter. The horses love it....this is for 500lbs
