{"id":7070,"date":"2016-05-17T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T17:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:42:55","slug":"pasture-grass-the-healthy-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/thehorse\/pasture-grass-the-healthy-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasture Grass: The Healthy Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few nutritionists will dispute that grass is the most natural feedstuff for horses. The horse’s digestive tract is well designed for continuous or “trickle” delivery of pasture forage. As well, it seems intuitive that the opportunity for socialization and exercise provided when horses have access to pasture is important for their health and well-being. If given free access to pasture (all day), horses will spend 60-70% of their time grazing, with considerable walking activity, especially in large fields. Unfortunately, for many horses free access to pasture is but a dream; only a restricted period of grazing, if any, is available to a large proportion of the domesticated horse population.<\/p>\n

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From a nutritional standpoint, common questions regarding pasture grass and grazing activity include: “What is the benefit of pasture for my horse?” “Can my horse get all the required nutrition from grass alone?” And, related to the previous question, “If my horse is at pasture all day long, do I need to feed him some kind of supplement?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,102,100,82,40],"tags":[49,50,322],"class_list":["post-7070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding-foals-and-young-horses","category-feeding-old-horses","category-feeding-performance-horses","category-thehorse","tag-equine-feeding","tag-feeding-your-horse","tag-pasturing-and-forages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070","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=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8187,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}