EQN 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Beet Pulp, Cecum, Hindgut
9 Mar 2018
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Eqn 3050 - lecture 15 - march 6/18. Our appendix is our cecum (its non functional) ; the horse relies on the cecum hugely. The stomach is very small for body size. Need for trickle feeding; dictated by their anatomy (small stomach, not alot of space for storage) Goals of a nutrition program: provision of substrates for maintenance of bw and replenishment of energy reserve in working muscle and other tissue. Changes with high intensity exercise: feed intake ~3%bw. Sedentary horse eating 10kg of feed will need approximately 15kg when repeatedly exercising at high intensity: little change in protein requirement in the t horse. High protein diet (>13%) slightly acidify blood and lower muscle ph: generally the increased feed intake should be calorie-dense. Fats (sometimes unpalatable, very energy dense, should not exceed 12% of diet w/w); horses don"t have a gall bladder which stores bile that emulsi es fats; typical horse diet has.
