{"id":6733,"date":"2015-07-15T00:54:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:46:22","slug":"mind-the-gap-feeding-the-toothless-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/thehorse\/mind-the-gap-feeding-the-toothless-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind the Gap: Feeding the Toothless Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ability to bite and chew food so we can digest our meals (and, hence, absorb nutrients) properly. In horses, the loss of one or more teeth can severely impact the ability to forage and masticate (chew). If you have such a dentally impaired horse\u2014or you own an older equid whose days with a full mouth of teeth are numbered\u2014read on as we dive into the unique topic of feeding the (nearly) chopperless horse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read more of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/36029\/mind-the-gap-feeding-the-toothless-horse?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=nutrition&amp;utm_campaign=07-06-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to bite and chew food so we can digest our meals (and, hence, absorb nutrients) properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,100,40],"tags":[253,49,251,172,252],"class_list":["post-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding-old-horses","category-thehorse","tag-digest","tag-equine-feeding","tag-foal","tag-senior-horse","tag-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}