ADSC 4390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lignin, Water Content, Hemicellulose
18 Aug 2017
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Examining nutrition requirement of a reese"s cup: protein, fat (where most energy comes from, fa, carbohydrates (specifically sugars) *nutrition is taking the components of what you feed to make up what nutritional needs are. *activity, metabolism, life stage (age), influence what you eat. Impaction colic- blocked of some part of the intestine where food can"t go through. Can lead to death of intestinal tissue, or even death of horse: a lot of times requires surgery to correct, happens a lot in the fall when it starts to get cool. Water content of fresh grass is very high. 2 main classes of carbs (structural & non-structural: sugars, starches (non-structural, highest in grain. Ideally digested in stomach/small intestine: fiber (structural, highest in roughages, digested primarily in hindgut by microbes, cecum is filled with microbes that ferment cellulose which releases. Volatile fatty acids that the horse can use for energy.
