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What Are You Feeding? Sampling and Analyzing Hay
By Peggy M. Auwerda, Ph.D. ~ Iowa State University
From the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of HORSEpower...
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What Are You Feeding? Sampling and Analyzing Hay
By Peggy M. Auwerda, Ph.D. ~ Iowa State University
From the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of HORSEpower Magazine.
The primary component of a horse’s diet should be forage. Ideally when feeding horses knowing the components of the forage will al-low an owner to feed the best grain mix to meet any deficits in the forage. The principle of hay sampling is to obtain a randomly-chosen sample which represents the average composition of the hay you are feeding.
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