{"id":6749,"date":"2015-09-20T02:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:24:56","slug":"forage-evaluating-quality-and-balancing-rations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/feeding\/forage-evaluating-quality-and-balancing-rations\/","title":{"rendered":"Forage: Evaluating Quality and Balancing Rations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHorses generally consume water, forage, concentrates, and supplements\u2014and by supplements I am referring to vitamins and minerals as I will not address nutraceuticals,\u201d said Shepherd, a clinical assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, in Blacksburg, Virginia. \u201cWater is always the most important ingredient in a horse\u2019s ration. Forage is the next most important, to which everything else in the ration should be based.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/36357\/forage-evaluating-quality-and-balancing-rations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water is always the most important ingredient in a horse\u2019s ration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,3,82,66,67,14,40],"tags":[140,187,229,184,243,244],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding","category-feeding-performance-horses","category-grains","category-hay","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-diet","tag-dietary","tag-forage","tag-hay","tag-supplements","tag-veterinary-internal-medicine-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749","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=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8254,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}