Re: RC: Re: Reply to Sarah's post

["hn.heather" <hn.heather@wanadoo.fr>]

> I well know that "high-fat-diets" were announced for more than one decade
for
> endurance and other high performance horses. Time enough to find out. I
> personally know absolute NO rider who uses, or had used fat as a primary
energy
> source with success

Hi Frank,
I don't know of anyone using fat as a primary energy source either & I don't
believe that the proponents of high-fat ever put it forward as such.
I've recently started using Buckeye Equine Energy which is 30% fat but only
as a proportion of the diet.
Not enough time to really evaluate it but the horse I am using it on
completed Barcelona 200kms in Dec with loads of energy to spare & with good
CRI's.  OK we didn't go mega fast but thats his rider holding him back!
Buckeye EE has added Vit E but I wonder should I be adding selenium as
well??
When I used oil I used it at every feeding but couldn't get them to eat more
than 500-600ml per day.  Was using corn oil & sometimes sunflower oil.
We did some trials in France about 7 years ago with a high-fat feed which
was a complete feed but my horses didn't like it & it was very difficult to
get them to eat it.  I don't think the feed ever came on the market.
I realise I'm trailing behind with this topic but being off-line for 10 days
sort of sets you back in the discussion stakes.
Heather
France



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