ridecamp@endurance.net: Feed

Feed

Cindy Budler (cindy.budler@cosmos.co.za)
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:02:35 +0200

Hi all,
Some more questions on feeding endurance horses...... I'd like to know what
the pros and cons are of feeding two different types of feeds that we
obtain here - I'm sure you have them too , just under different names. One
is what we call Molly Chop( or harmony chop) - which is I think just the
husks of the corn(maize) seed - like bran is the husk of wheat. The second
is wheat germ - the germ of the wheat kernel made into a sort of oily
flour. I would imagine that the Chop is high protein like maize while the
wheat germ is high oil/fat and might be good for substituting for oil on
feeds.I do know that wheat germ gives a real gloss to the coat and does put
weight on , but weather it is good long term and in what quantity is the
question. I know bran is high in Phosphorus - would the chop and wheat germ
also be??.

Yours in ignorance,
Cindy
Tarlton
Gauteng
South Africa

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