{"id":6619,"date":"2014-12-20T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:19:38","slug":"understanding-senior-horse-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/equine-digestion\/understanding-senior-horse-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Senior Horse Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With advances in nutrition and preventive health care, horses can expect to live longer, healthier lives than they have in the past. But, as horses age, it becomes more challenging for them to chew digest hay and grain, which in turn makes it difficult for them to maintain a healthy weight. Fortunately, owners have options when it comes to finding a palatable feed that older horses can chew and digest easily, such as senior horse feed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/34442\/understanding-senior-horse-feeds?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dental problems are a common problem among aging horses. Poor dentition creates a snowball effect of health issues that leads to malnutrition, which inevitably leads to weight loss. Thus, having your older horse on an appropriate proper diet is essential in prolonging their health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,56,70,100,85,66,87,101,84,68],"tags":[374,49,373,172,375],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-condition","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding-fats","category-feeding-old-horses","category-fiber","category-grains","category-metabolism","category-pasturing-and-forages","category-protein","category-vitamins-and-minerals","tag-dental-problems","tag-equine-feeding","tag-preventive-health-care","tag-senior-horse","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","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=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8289,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}