(08-04-2012, 07:33 AM)Victor Leigh Wrote: One acre per horse? That's quite a bit of land. Maybe it can be modified by supplementing the diet with processed food. I have seen some people feeding their horses with something that looked more or less like what is fed to cows. Horses and cows eat similar things, right?
kind of. you can supplement with your own grain or other feeds, but if horses cant get what they need through grass, they need feed made specifically for them, which is very high in vitamins and minerals. cow feed just doesnt make the cut because cows arent as active as horses are. but the reason for the lot of land is, when horses eat, they sometimes pull the grass by the roots, therefor making that spot a grassless one, it takes time for grass to grow back. if you dont have enough space, the horse will eat all the grass in that area and it wont grow back :/
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