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grazing horses

The importance of pasture to horses.

Horses are grazing animals and most horses meet their nutritional needs from cool-season grass pasture or hay.

 

Forages are an important part of the equine diet and more than 80% of horses have some pasture access. There are many benefits for horses grazing pasture compared to eating hay in confinement, including the reduction of unwanted behaviors such as bedding and manure eating, cribbing and chewing wood. (this info was published in an article from the University of Minnesota )

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Uploaded on October 23, 2021
Taken on October 23, 2021