{"id":6653,"date":"2015-01-03T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:02:29","slug":"choosing-grains-for-your-horses-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/equine-digestion\/choosing-grains-for-your-horses-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Grains for Your Horse&#8217;s Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although many grains can have a valuable place in your horse\u2019s diet, no single grain will provide all the nutrients a working horse needs, even when fed in combination with premium-quality hay.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the grains commonly fed to horses, oats are generally considered the closest to the \u201cperfect\u201d feed, but even oats fail to supply sufficient quantities of some vitamins and minerals, and their relative energy density is low.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/35073\/choosing-grains-for-your-horses-diet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the grains commonly fed to horses, oats are generally considered the closest to the \u201cperfect\u201d feed, but even oats fail to supply sufficient quantities of some vitamins and minerals, and their relative energy density is low<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,56,78,70,85,66,67,87,77,101,84,68],"tags":[140,187,153,307,184,237],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-condition","category-equine-digestion","category-equine-supplements","category-feeding-fats","category-fiber","category-grains","category-hay","category-metabolism","category-obesity","category-pasturing-and-forages","category-protein","category-vitamins-and-minerals","tag-diet","tag-dietary","tag-feed","tag-grain","tag-hay","tag-supplement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","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=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8279,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions\/8279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}