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- 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
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML
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