{"id":4520,"date":"2011-02-17T01:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T18:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2011-02-17T01:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T18:08:57","slug":"obesity-in-horses-brings-serious-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/obesity-in-horses-brings-serious-health-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity in horses brings serious health risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Written by ;\u00a0PETER JOHNSON<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Equine researchers are increasingly recognizing obesity can pose a serious health problem in horses, just as in people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Horses have become more sedentary in the last 50 to 100 years as they&#8217;ve been used less for ranching and transportation and more for recreation, said Shannon Moreaux, a veterinarian who heads Montana State University&#8217;s Equine Science Program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Owners have fed their horses more nutrients and sugars in rich pastures, hay and supplements, he said, even as many are less able to exercise their horses as much. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatfallstribune.com\/article\/20110215\/SPECIALSECTION09\/102150308\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by ;\u00a0PETER JOHNSON Equine researchers are increasingly recognizing obesity can pose a serious health problem in horses, just as in people. Horses have become more sedentary in the last 50 to 100 years as they&#8217;ve been used less for ranching and transportation and more for recreation, said Shannon Moreaux, a veterinarian who heads Montana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}