Re: Corn oil

[Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Niccolai Murphy wrote:
> 
> The reason I asked was if we take 20% by weight of feed then with say
> Hal you get 20% of 40 lbs a day = 8 lbs of corn oil a day.
> 

Nope, take 20% of the concentrate portion, not the total ration.  I
think most nutritionists figure if you're just feeding hay, your horse
doesn't need fat, but if you did want to figure it that way, then figure
it as around 3-5% of the TOTAL weight being fed.  So if Hal is getting
40 lbs of hay, then 3-5% is 1.2 - 2 lbs, or 2.4 - 4 cups.

Susan G


> ---Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >
> > 20% by weight.
> >
> > Susan G
> >
> > Niccolai Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > Was that 20% figure from Texas a weight percentage or and energy
> > > percentage. I thought that it was the latter but being an old fog
> > > brain most likely wrong.
> > >
> > > > Who says 2 cups is the max???  Texas A&M has fed up to 20% of the
> > > > concentrate ration in fat with no problems, and I've fed more
> than 2
> > > > cups to LOTS of horses, including little bitty Arabs.
> > >
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> Nicco Murphy - Poway, San Diego, CA
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