{"id":7388,"date":"2017-03-20T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T21:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2019-03-20T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:00:39","slug":"mare-and-foal-nutrition-study-creates-new-areas-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/mare-and-foal-nutrition-study-creates-new-areas-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mare and Foal Nutrition Study Creates New Areas of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The study, entitled \u201cEffect of Maternal Diet on Select Fecal Bacteria in Mares and Their Foals,\u201d involved assigning pregnant Thoroughbred mares to one of two treatment groups: one group was fed an oat-based concentrate and the other group a corn- and wheat-middling-based concentrate. The team chose oats and corn as the starch sources in the pelleted concentrates because oats are considered more easily digestible for a horse, while corn and wheat middlings are slightly less so.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a title=\"The rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/38848\/mare-and-foal-nutrition-study-creates-new-areas-of-interest?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Pyles, a PhD student in the department of animal and food sciences at the University of Kentucky (UK), became interested in mare and foal nutrition by accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,102,100,14,40],"tags":[780,781,784,783,782,785,666],"class_list":["post-7388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding-foals-and-young-horses","category-feeding-old-horses","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-digestive-system","tag-feeding-foals-and-young-horses","tag-foal-care","tag-mare-care","tag-mare-nutrition","tag-morgan-pyles","tag-university-of-kentucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388","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=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}