Horse Feeds - Maximum Vitamins And Minerals Providers

It is extremely important for any horse owner to give a special care on the Horse Feeds to keep the animal healthy and strong enough. In general a horse prefers to take approximately 20 to 40 pounds of hay on a regular basis. This amount is excluded one from the grain it eats daily. This is such an animal that loves to eat and they love to chew all the while. The survey says that an average 1000-pound horse eats roughly 5lbs. of grain per day. The whole amount of horse feeds is broken for two times as such animals do not have big stomachs. Even horse drinks a lot. At least they drink eight hundred gallons and one thousand gallons of water every day. This is the calculation for an average horse. It is recommended to provide such animal salt or mineral blocks during winter so that they can never be dehydrated.

There are a number of horse feeds available in the market in the recent era. Grains and pellets are the common feeds for the horse. Sweet feeds are preferable and most of the owner provides sweets to their animal as it has vitamins and minerals. Both are essential for a horse along with molasses for taste. The pellets used in the feeds are basically artificial just to enhance the sweetness. Oats, corn, or other types of natural grains are not so preferable to feed such animals like horse in spite of the fact that pellets are more expensive than such natural grains.

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Article Submitted On: January 07, 2011

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