Re: Can horses pick their ration?

["Lysane Cree" <cree_l@LSA.Lan.McGill.CA>]

From: Ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net
Date sent: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:35:58 -0800 (PST)
To: cree_l@LSA.Lan.McGill.CA
Subject: Re: Can horses pick their ration?

I wonder about this too - My horse consistently avoided anything 
that had a vitamin/mineral supplement (I can't remember the name 
of the particular one I had used now, but it was one I bought at our local
feed store - it was from Ontario.) mixed in. The only time he ate it 
was if it was mixed in 
with grain or and the whole thing was wetted down so he couldn't 
separate the powder supplement from the grain. The only time he 
gets hay is in the winter and all summer he is on pasture whenever 
I am not riding/training (mostly during the week). So the quantity of 
grain I give him is relatively small anyway overall. So am I to 
assume that he was getting all that he needed from the grass and 
some grain, or is it just the supplement that didn't suit his tastes?
Lysane and Buck (AS IF I'm going to eat that powdery stuff!! Yuch!)