What is a horses diet?

Answer 1

You decrease the amount of grains in the diet, preferrably to none at all and replace them with a protein/vitamin/mineral supplement that is forage based. These are commonly called ration balancers and are fed at rates of 1-3 lbs per day depending on the brand, the size and workload of the horse, the quality of the hay, etc. You may also cut the amount of forage fed daily if a horse is on hay, however you should never go lower than 1% of the horse's body weight in forage per day. Pasture time may also be limited or cut out completely in order to control the amount of forage consumed per day. Or a grazing muzzle may be put on the horse to cut down on the ability to graze as efficiently.

Answer 2

Horses eat primarily grass and grass hay. They may also be supplemented with grain if they are used for work, show, racing, or are growing or considered "senior." Diets in terms of quality and quantity really depend on the use, health, size, weight and age of the horse. A horse on pasture typically will eat 2.5% of its body weight in dry matter per day.

Answer 3

This depends on the "job" of the horse. If it is a high performance athlete, its diet will most likely consist of very little grass and mostly of high quality forage, in addition to large quantities of high quality grain and beet pulp. On the other end of the spectrum, a horse that is not in any work will be fine if kept on a pasture with sufficient grass (approx. 1 acre per horse is sufficient) or forage.

Answer 4

Horses eat grass out in a field but they need more than just grass to survive. They need water and in the winter grain helps their bodies heat up. You can usually put a giant bale out in their field and it will last them a couple of days but you would have to make sure it is not moldy if it has sat in the rain or out in their pen too long.

they can eat oat.grass, and alfalfa hay and rice bran, soy bean meal,electrolites, and much more concentrates

Answer 5

you can feed horses chaff, barley, horse pellets and apples for some examples.

Answer 6

just a hanfull of grain and a little less hay

Answer 7

Check the answers to 'what are all the kinds of horse feed' or 'why should you feed your horse grain'.

Answer 8

Depends on there habitat. It can consist of grass, grass-hay, alfalfa- hay and other types of feed including grains.