{"id":2553,"date":"2009-08-25T23:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2009-08-25T23:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:23:01","slug":"fiber-in-hay-whats-the-magic-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/fiber-in-hay-whats-the-magic-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber in Hay: What&#8217;s the Magic Number?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-bottom: 0em; padding-top: 0.5em;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;\"><span id=\"ArticlesRepeater_ctl00_DescriptionLabel\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #333333; font-size: 12px;\">Horses evolved to eat a lot of fiber, spending up to 17 hours a day grazing various forage plants. But not all fiber is created equal, especially when it comes to hay. Hay carries a few challenges compared to living forages. One, compared to fresh forage, dry hay lacks the moisture needed to move<\/span>&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0<a id=\"ArticlesRepeater_ctl00_Article2HL\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-152bx383b8x110967&amp;\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses evolved to eat a lot of fiber, spending up to 17 hours a day grazing various forage plants. But not all fiber is created equal, especially when it comes to hay. Hay carries a few challenges compared to living forages. One, compared to fresh forage, dry hay lacks the moisture needed to move&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}