Main description:

Essential Equine Nutrition is a book written for students, vets, breeders and equine professionals, giving a broad coverage of the main areas of equine nutrition needed for understanding how best to feed horses and ponies. It illustrates the science of equine nutrition as it currently stands, including where there are gaps in the current research, and how best to apply the data that is available to practical solutions in feeding horses. The style of writing is deliberately kept simple in order to allow non-scientists access to the information in a clear and concise manner. Only proven scientific data is used within the book and how best to apply the data that is available to practical solutions in feeding horses Contents Current status of equine nutrition Water - the first limiting nutrient Basic elements in equine nutrition The equine digestive tract Feedstuffs for horses Feeding individual horses Feeding for breeding Nutritional problems and diseases in horses Paddocks and pasture Formulating diets for horses Index