“Horses generally consume water, forage, concentrates, and supplements—and by supplements I am referring to vitamins and minerals as I will not address nutraceuticals,” said Shepherd, a clinical assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, in Blacksburg, Virginia. “Water is always the most important ingredient in a horse’s ration. Forage is the next most important, to which everything else in the ration should be based.”
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