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I think Bruce is right about it because difficult to determine because 
we don't tend to feed just one (or two ) things alone. Back when I 
started one very good endurance vet told me if you need more energy you 
add corn - to a limit. If that doesn't completely do the trick you add oil.

At that time the mare need more feed to keep on the weight. I did it and 
it worked fine. I used cracked corn and added to a commercial textured 
feed when the feed didn't seem to contain sufficient calories and I 
didn't want to add a lot more protein to the diet. A friend had an 
equine nutritionist tell him to add barley when his horse needed more 
calories. That worked fine for him.

In reality it not the feed, it's what's in the feed. It's so much 
percent protein - it's pounds of protein. Today I'm out of the feed 
mixing business. Today there are so many good commercial feed mixes and 
supplements on the market that there is little need to roll your own.

I simply use a good feed, XTN for the guys working hard and Legacy for 
the other guys with a good supplement for Se which we have none in our 
soils and a all around protein/vit supplement for those that tend to 
live on air and that's it. That, a few soaked alfalfa cubes and all the 
grass/grass hay they want and they seem to do just fine.

Truman

Don Huston wrote:
> Hello Bruce,
> Thanks for the link to this very interesting article. When I started 
> riding endurance in 1988 the cowboys around here said "feed'um 4-5 
> pounds of rolled corn with 15 pounds of alfalfa". According to this 
> article those cowboys knew how to feed a hard working horse but I quit 
> feeding corn after several years because of the many articles about it 
> not being very good for endurance horses. What is your opinion on 
> feeding rolled corn to endurance horses? Chime in the rest of you 
> "feed freaks". :-)
> Don Huston


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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