Horse owners are continually looking for ways to reduce feed costs without disturbing their horses’ health, and a group of French equine nutritionists have some good news in this department: According to recent study results, lactating saddle horse mares on good quality pasture didn\u2019t need to be fed grain to maintain their weight or their foals\u2019 growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot complementing equine diets with feed would represent a double benefit to horse breeders, on an economic and environmental level,\u201d said Claire Collas, PhD, researcher at French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Saint-Gen\u00e8s-Champanelle. Collas presented her work at the 2013 French Equine Research Day, held Feb. 28 in Paris…….. \u201cNot complementing equine diets with feed would represent a double benefit to horse breeders, on an economic and environmental level,\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,57,14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-feeding","category-feeding-and-caring-for-foals","category-industry","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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