{"id":6494,"date":"2014-02-12T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:25:24","slug":"considerations-for-managing-emaciated-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/feeding\/considerations-for-managing-emaciated-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Considerations for Managing Emaciated Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest concern with emaciation is overall undernutrition. In general, a truly emaciated or under-conditioned horse (with a body condition score, or BCS, of less than 3) isn\u2019t consuming enough nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>With emaciation\u2014even if protein, vitamin, and mineral requirements are being met\u2014the concern is the horse not having enough energy reserves in the form of caloric intake to function normally.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/33341\/considerations-for-managing-emaciated-horses\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body condition, adiposity, and weight can affect a horse\u2019s overall health status. Here, we&#8217;ll discuss some of the specific health concerns for horses that are too thin (emaciated).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,3,70,66,67,74,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding","category-feeding-fats","category-grains","category-hay","category-ulcers","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8338,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/8338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}