Cavalo Sénior – Porque é tão difícil manter a condição corporal?<\/p>"},"content":{"rendered":"
In recent years there has been an increase in the average life expectancy of horses. This increase was due, in part, to the abandonment of the use of the horse as a working animal and increasing use in sport and leisure, as well as the provision of better health care and greater knowledge regarding the species in general.
With this increase in age, new challenges have emerged, namely in maintaining an adequate body condition. There are several factors that condition the maintenance of an adequate body condition in the senior horse.<\/p>
In general, we see a decrease in digestive efficiency in senior horses. Absorptive capacity is limited by age-related changes in the intestinal epithelium, which limit the passage of nutrients into the bloodstream.<\/p>
The production of the enzyme amylase, necessary for the digestion of starch, is also reduced, impairing its pre-cecal digestion and enhancing the arrival of starch in the large intestine and a consequent intestinal acidosis ? that makes the horse more predisposed to ?colics? and laminitis. Protein digestion and absorption is also particularly affected in the senior horse, which contributes to muscle breakdown.<\/p>
For these reasons, a gastric supplement and\/or a concentrated feed \u201cgrain free\u201d<\/em>, may ensure or supplement the senior horse's diet.<\/p> Wear and\/or tooth loss associated with age are detrimental to prehension, mastication and salivation. Insufficient chewing and salivation promotes the arrival of larger particles to the intestinal lumen, hindering enzymatic and microbiota action, which compromises digestive efficiency.<\/p> Complementary forage and concentrated feeds may ensure or complement the senior horse's diet.<\/p> factors of stress<\/em> such as temperature can have a significant impact on a senior horse. Low temperatures particularly affect senior horses because internal heat-producing mechanisms, such as intestinal fiber fermentation, may be limited. Low temperatures can also limit the horse's water intake, increasing the risk of dehydration and associated problems.<\/p> Also changes in management can have an impact on body condition. For example, in the transition to an extensive herd regime, the hierarchies that are established can limit intake. <\/span><\/p> Chronic weight loss and consequent decrease in body condition may also be related to disease states and\/or chronic pain. Infectious problems, arthritis, kidney dysfunction, allergic or tumor conditions, among other conditions, can justify loss of body condition.<\/p> <\/p> Nos últimos anos assistiu-se a um aumento da esperança média de vida do cavalo. Esse aumento deveu-se, em parte, ao abandono da utilização do cavalo como animal de trabalho e crescente utilização no desporto e lazer, bem como à prestação de melhores cuidados de saúde e a um maior conhecimento relativo à espécie em geral. […]<\/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":[45,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condicao-corporal","category-cavalo-senior"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clone.intacol.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GASTROBALANCE<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>
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