This depends on what else the horse may be getting to eat. If the horse is on a complete feed it will probably be OK, but it is always best to provide hay or grass whenever you can as this is what horses evolved to eat. If hay is scarce or just not available look into possibly feeding oat straw in small amounts daily. You could also try to find hay cubes or hay pellets. It should be noted that hay or grass is what enables a horse to maintain it's body heat in the winter through digestion of the long stemmed fiber in the hay and grass. Without these things the horse may need to be blanketed or even brought inside, particularly if it does not grow a very thick winter coat.
Yes, but the pasture in the winter may not be enough to sustain the horse so extra feed may be required.
Grass sickness is when something happens to the horse e.g. too much sweet grass ,etc, when they lose weight very quickly and eventually die.
Horses mainly eat- grass,hay,treats, and of course the grain you give them in the winter time...
Because grass is sparse in winter, you would generally supplement their forage with hay, now which kind of hay is left up to the owner's discretion. :)
it gets cold and snowy. then it melts and you mow your lawn.
all horses can eat hay/grass. all horses can eat hay/grass.
Horses love grass and hay also carrots and apples.
Grass is good for horses because this their natural diet; they are designed (though in a less efficient way than ruminants are) to eat grass. They've lived on grass for thousands and thousands of years, even before Equus caballus evolved into the Equus caballus that we know today. When digesting the fiber, cellulose, lignin, protein and carbohydrates found in grass, they produce heat energy which keeps them warm in the winter. It also provides the energy they need for being used as working ranch horses or draft horses, or just as leisure horses that get good exercise every day. Be careful the grass you let your horses have access to is not too rich, otherwise it will cause founder. Roughage in the form of grass hay is the best type of feed to give your horse when he's on good-quality grass to help with ease in digestion.
in the wild they eat mainly grass but if kept out at grass (not in a stable) grass a hard feed in the morning and/or the afternoon and some hay in winter. Hard feed; chaff, pellets, malasus, maybe vitamins it varies from owner to owner. :)
horses eat grass because there is water in the grass,which keeps them hydrated....also God made them that way to eat grass and plants! :)
Yes horses can eat Buffalo grass, it is a native grass similar to prairie or meadow grass in nutritional content.
* Puddles * Streams * Creeks * Ponds * Rivers * Lakes Anywhere they can, wild horse travel great distances in one day, and will come across water sooner-or-later.