Drought feeding for horses /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Barton, ACT :
Rural Industries Research and Development Corp.,
[1999]
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| Series: | RIRDC research paper series ;
no. 99/98. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preparing a drought action plan
- Introduction
- Environmental impact of your plan
- Management options
- Other management decisions
- Feeding horses during a drought
- Determining the weight and condition score of horses
- Determining the nutritional requirement of various classes of horses
- Understanding the nutritional value of different feeds
- Determining how much feed a horse can consume
- Calculating the total nutrient requirements and feed costs during a drought
- Management aspects
- Managing horses during drought
- When to start feeding
- Introducing horses to hand-feeding
- Monitoring
- Breaking routine or changing feed
- Deciding when to stop feeding
- Feeding horses in containment areas
- Site
- Structure
- Water and feed supply
- Management
- Releasing horses back to pasture
- General
- Pasture management
- Effect of drought on pasture
- Pasture management during drought
- Estimating pasture survival
- Management after drought
- Opportunity to improve pastures
- Fodder crops
- Management of horse health
- Horse health
- Animal welfare
- Plants poisonous to horses
- The feed value of unusual feedstuffs
- High moisture feeds
- Types of feed