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One of the main concerns to take into account when feeding horses is to know if they receive food with adequate nutritional characteristics for the type of effort required, that is, if the food is balanced in terms of energy, protein, vitamins and minerals. Another of the concerns is based on the choice of the compound feed supplied, in order to guarantee the use of quality raw materials and the suitability of its processing, if applicable.
With regard to pastures, legumes are important because they have a higher concentration of calcium and digestible protein than grasses, which increases the nutritional value of the grass consumed. Legumes also improve soil fertility, since grasses are the most resistant to grazing, so a suitable pasture for horses should contain a mixture of both, with 20 to 30% of legumes.<\/p>
Hay and hay silage are methods for harvesting and preserving forage, which entail variable losses in the nutritive value of foods in view of their green content. The optimum height for cutting in grasses is at the beginning of heading and that of legumes at the beginning of flowering.<\/p>
Cereal straw (wheat, barley, oats, etc.) is characterized by low digestibility and residual nutritional value. It is a food poor in energy, protein and mineral macroelements, and also has a lower voluntary intake compared to hay, so its use should be limited to situations of shortage of fodder.<\/p>
Compound feed for horses should be complementary to fodder. The main raw materials used in the manufacture of compound feed are subdivided into: energetic, protein and fibrous raw materials. In addition to the raw materials, compound feeds usually also contain a pre-mix of additives that balance the feed from a mineral and vitamin point of view.<\/p>
Uma das principais preocupações a ter em conta na alimentação de cavalos, é saber se recebem alimentos com características nutricionais adequadas ao tipo de esforço que lhe é exigido, ou seja, se a alimentação é equilibrada em termos de energia, proteína, vitaminas e minerais. Outra das preocupações, assenta na escolha do alimento composto fornecido, no […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maneio-alimentar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}