{"id":6577,"date":"2014-08-07T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:47:56","slug":"energy-and-carbs-in-the-equine-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/equine-digestion\/energy-and-carbs-in-the-equine-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy and Carbs in the Equine Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If forages provide the \u201cmaintenance\u201d energy horses need for the workings of everyday life\u2014grazing, sleeping, wandering from pasture to pasture, maintaining internal temperature\u2014then cereal grains are the turbocharged portion of the diet. Their main function is to provide higher concentrations of energy, in the form of carbohydrates and starches, so that the horse can do the work we ask of him&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/21245\/energy-and-carbs-in-the-equine-diet?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If forages provide the \u201cmaintenance\u201d energy horses need for the workings of everyday life then cereal grains are the turbocharged portion of the diet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,56,78,70,82,85,66,67,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-condition","category-equine-digestion","category-equine-supplements","category-feeding-fats","category-feeding-performance-horses","category-fiber","category-grains","category-hay","category-vitamins-and-minerals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","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=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}