ANFS241 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Trifolium Repens, Melilotus, Trifolium Pratense
29 Nov 2016
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Will differ depending on: stage of growth and breed, speeds and distances, training/conditioning, climate, weight of rider. Electrolytes: pretty consistent with adult horses no work. With working horses, goes way up, especially sodium because it is lost through sweat. Energy: needs to be adequate to maintain condition, racehorses body condition score usually a 5, excess weight stress joints, fat reduces heat loss, lung capacity, depends on duration and intensity. Speed, footing, terrain, amount of weight that is being carried, collection that you are expecting: estimated using oxygen consumption, but relationship varies with their gait, slope and breed. Lactic acid production in muscles: exercise and maintenance and life (travel) (in a trailer, causes stress, can energy requirements be met without grain. Horses do not store or make glycogen. Add energy dense feed in form of fats or oils without increasing other things. Protein: needed for muscle building and repair, nitrogen is lost in sweat.
