When the farmer gives it to them.
Hay is full of fiber.
FODDER
Because straw is harder than hay and straw will get stuck in the digestive system because it is too thik.
A hippologist studies horses. Hippology is the study of horses.
Just get dog food that has lots of fiber in it, the nutrience levels are usually on the bag. Maybe you can get fiber pills as a subscription from your vet if your vet said he/she needed more fiber in his/her systom.
Horses are just called "horses" unless they are in a group together. When horses get in a group together, they are then called a "herd".
FODDER
Functional Cecum
horses can consume flour. Horses should not eat flour, period. Horses should eat a feed high in digestable fiber and low in carbohydrates and sugars, and good quality forage (hay).
horses that are frequently exercised need feed with higher fiber and less suger,
Recently I have pioneered a project to send up 6 million cows and horses into space. It is to test to see if they could contract BSE, and sadly, they all did, all of them, including the horses.
There are a fair number of donkeys, although horses are rare. Chile also has a large number of llamas and alpacas, which are used to carry packs and to provide fiber for spinning into thread for clothing in the higher elevations that donkeys and horses cannot work in.
Because straw is harder than hay and straw will get stuck in the digestive system because it is too thik.
Horses evolved to eat grass, hay is essentially just grass that has been grown to a specific point of maturity, cut, allowed to dry a bit and baled for consumption by animals. Therefore horses will enjoy eating hay, which is just 'dry grass'. Hay should always be provided at all times as horses need constant long stemmed fiber moving through their digestive systems.
Fiber
B-fiber are DULL PAIN!
Adult horses are not designed to drink milk and the enzymatic components of milk (skim or otherwise) do not particularly lend themselves to improving the digestive capabilities of horses. Horses are designed to digest fiber into volatile fatty acids in the large intestine as their primary source of energy. A secondary, less recommended, energy source is grain. Neither grain nor hay digestion would be much improved by feeding milk.
a natural fiber