CHAPTER XVI 



FEEDING FARM HORSES 



Food Requirements for Horses. Work horses re- 

 quire protein to repair the broken-down tissues ; fats 

 and carbohydrates to produce heat and energy. The 

 harder an animal works, the more food required. 

 The Wolff-Lehmann standards for feeding farm 

 horses are shown in the table below. They indicate 

 the amount of food required per 1,000 pounds live 

 weight and are for horses when doing light, moder- 

 ate and heavy work. 



WOLFF-LEHMANN STANDARDS FOR HORSES 



A Fundamental Principle in Horse Feeding is to 

 use a relatively smaller quantity of roughage and a 

 correspondingly larger amount of concentrates than 

 for bovines. The kind of work to which horses are 

 put calls for the least possible loa'd on the digestive 

 organs, which even in the heavy draft breeds are 

 small, particularly the stomach. Hence, the food 



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