Description

Overview:

The horse is a monogastric hindgut fermenter. The horse evolved for grazing and it does so for up to 17 hours a day. A high proportion of the horse's dietary carbohydrate is in the form of starch. A mature horse eats 2-2.5% of it's body weight in dry matter every day, 1.5-1.75% of this should be fibre (hay/haylage). This is to prevent a rapid drop in pH in the large intestine and also to stimulate peristalsis in the gut and prevent build up of gas.

Subject:

Life Science, Anatomy/Physiology

Level:

Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical

Material Type:

Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Provider:

WikiVet

Provider Set:

Anatomy & Physiology

Date Added:

02/05/2015