New idea of feeding

Give horses what nature would have offered them.
Horses get everything they need from plants: energy, vitamins, and other vital components. Herbs are proved to be very useful for humans, but because of a different organism in horses they use plants even better! In other words herbs are powerful tools for keeping horses in good shape.

Nowadays a horse’s diet often consists of very few different plant species. Unable to find some essential compounds in the food the horse’s organizm sends the signal: ”Eat more!” The horse eats and eats, hopelessly trying to find what the body is missing.

Horses can take up feeding only with the help of bacteria.
All herbivores extract energy from plants with the help from specialized bacteria living in the gut. A horse’s body hosts 5 - 10 kg of bacteria. The gut takes up proteins, fat, and some sugars from the food, but the main part of plants passes on to the bacteria. These small living factories poduce 70 % of the animal’s total energy. If this complicated system of microorganisms works properly it gives the animal so powerful a defence, that no artificially made products can provide the same effect! If the microflora on the other hand is damaged in any way it may seriously affect the health condition of the horse. Therefore when we feed our horses, we should have the welfare of the gut bacteria in mind as well as the horses’.

Do not feed horses with garbage!
When feeding passes through the intestine the body extracts everything useful. The rest is garbage. The more garbage  in the feeding the more energy is spent in selecting good stuff and cleaning out the bad.  Feeding should consist of components, that are easy for the body to take up, and a minimum of useless content.

For example, pelleted feeding is usually mixed with vitamins. High manufacturing temperature and pressure break the vitamins into smaller particles, which end up as garbage for the body and must be cleaned up. So instead of bringing power to the body these “vitamins” take a lot of energy from the body. Another example is, when following feeding recommendations for the “average” horse YOUR horse is overloaded with components it doesn’t need. Usually, the body takes an overdose of any compounds as a threat and turns on a protective mechanism that stops the intake.

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