{"id":6875,"date":"2016-02-08T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:51:18","slug":"feeding-horses-to-increase-weight-and-body-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/thehorse\/feeding-horses-to-increase-weight-and-body-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Horses to Increase Weight and Body Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of circumstances in which owners may want their horses to increase body condition. It may simply be because a horse has lost some weight over the winter months from less access to pasture, or because it is a very hard keeper. However, it may be because of something more serious, such as recovering from illness, parasitic infection, or from surgery. Then, too, a horse might be purchased or rescued without the desired amount of fat coverage around the ribs and body, or it may even be undernourished.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/33441\/feeding-horses-to-increase-weight-and-body-condition?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses should be in the body condition score range of 4\u20136, depending on various circumstances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,82,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding-performance-horses","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","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=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8230,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}