Forage: Evaluating Quality and Balancing Rations
Water is always the most important ingredient in a horse’s ration.
Water is always the most important ingredient in a horse’s ration.
Horses need sunlight to synthesize this vitamin that’s important for bone health. So does blanketing affect their ability to produce it?
“Electrolytes, in ther simplest form, are just molecules that regulate water content within the body,” says Carr. “They’re also important in generating electrical potentials (charges) across membranes, which are responsible for nerve conduction and muscle function as well as transport of molecules.”