Maintaining A Healthy Digestive Tract
Crandell KM. 1998. Maintaining a healthy digestive tract. Trail Blazer Magazine, July/Aug.
Feeding management can greatly influence the health of the digestive tract for better or worse. A healthy digestive tract is an integral part of the total well-being of the horse.
As humans try to manipulate the horse’s diet to reach certain goals (more energy, trimmer figure, convenience, and so on), horses end up on unnatural feeding schedules that can impact their digestive tract health. Failure to understand the anatomy of the digestive tract and basic digestive physiology is the root of many feeding errors involving nutritional management.