Re: Reply to Sarah's post

[wsabg@t-online.de (Wolfgang Schwingenheuer)]

> Frank Mechelhoff wrote:
>
> >
> > 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. I would like to hear if ANY Ridecamper had feed a
> > "high-fat-diet" (say, more than 1 litre ~ 2 pds per day) over some periods of
> > time with success - that means, was happy with overall condition and performance
> > of the horse. I doubt. If such person exists, I would be really interested to
> > know the type and amounts of fat as well as the amount of other nutrients, how
> > the basic feeding is and what time it takes get the horse used to this diet.
> > Maybe then I'll give one more try. At the moment, "high-fat" seems to be a
> > dead-horse to me. A very dead one.
> >

Hi Frank and others,

sorry, hit the send-button to early...

I can remember some italian endurance riders using only hay and oil for feeding their
horses and they perform very well that time. This was also written in one of the
Eldric-yearbooks, if you want, I can search my archives on this.

Regards,

Wolfgang + Ninja (oil, yes, but not instead of water, please)
Germany


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