Forages and Grazing in Horse Nutrition

Front Matter....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 14-14
Grass physiology and its relation to nutritive value in feeding horses....Pages 17-43
Changes in chemical composition of different grass species and -mixtures in equine pasture during grazing season....Pages 45-48
Phytoestrogen coumestrol and its metabolite in mares’ plasma after clover mixed pasture and alfalfa pellets ingestion....Pages 49-53
Fermentation parameters and total gas production of equine caecal and faecal inocula....Pages 55-58
White clover ( Trifolium repens L.): do non-structural carbohydrates account?....Pages 59-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Nutritional assessment of forage quality....Pages 65-82
Prediction of organic matter digestibility of forages in horses using different chemical, biological and physical methods....Pages 83-95
Repeatability and reproducibility of digestibility measurements in horses fed forage based diets....Pages 97-100
The effect of three different treatments on the respirable particle content, total viable count and mould concentrations in hay for horses....Pages 101-106
Degradation of grass and grass fructan by equine gastrointestinal digesta in vitro ....Pages 107-108
Nitrogen digestion of a large range of hays by mobile nylon bag technique (MNBT) in horses....Pages 109-120
Evaluation of ADL, AIA and TiO 2 as markers to determine apparent digestibility in ponies fed increasing proportions of concentrate....Pages 121-123
The effect of steaming and soaking treatments on respirable dust content of hay and the potential environmental polluting impact of the waste water produced....Pages 125-128
The use of frozen equine faeces to assess the nutritional quality of forages using an in vitro gas production technique....Pages 129-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Grazing systems and the role of horses in heathland areas....Pages 137-146
How do horses graze pastures and affect the diversity of grassland ecosystems?....Pages 147-161
The effect of pasture restriction on dry matter intake of foraging donkeys in the United Kingdom....Pages 163-176
Variations in voluntary feed intake in 2 year old Standardbred geldings in training fed a forage only diet ad libitum....Pages 177-179
Effect of forage presentation on feed intake behaviour in stabled horses....Pages 181-183
The effect of wearing a grazing muzzle vs. not wearing a grazing muzzle on intakes of spring, summer and autumn pastures by ponies....Pages 185-186
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Inhibition of lamellar separation caused by endotoxins by Polymyxin B in an ex vivo/ in vitro model of equine laminitis....Pages 187-190
Acclimatisation of horses to a novel feeding system....Pages 191-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Grazing and pasture management considerations from around the world....Pages 197-208
Farm grazing management with horsesin two French grassland regions: Normandy and Auvergne....Pages 209-212
Grassland management practice on Irish Thoroughbred stud farms....Pages 213-218
Heavy grazing by horses on heathlands of different botanical composition....Pages 219-226
Foraging behaviour of equines grazing on partially improved heathlands....Pages 227-230
Effect of cultivated or semi-natural pasture on changes in live weight, body condition score, body measurements and fat thickness in grazing Finnhorse mares....Pages 231-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Impact of harvest, preservation and storage conditions on forage quality....Pages 237-253
Horse feed hygiene evaluation with microbial and sensory examination....Pages 255-262
Effect of Vivaflor 03 on the colonic ecosystem of horses fed a high forage diet....Pages 263-266
Effects of a deoxynivalenol contaminated diet on feed intake and health status in horses....Pages 267-270
Aerobic stability of sugar cane in natura hydrolysed with calcium oxide to be used in equine diets....Pages 271-274
Nutritional composition of white oat ( Avena sativa L. ) with different levels of dry matter for use in the diet of horses....Pages 275-277
Effect of storage period on the chemical composition and beta-carotene concentration in estilosantes hay varieties for feeding equine....Pages 279-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Forage feeding systems....Pages 289-303
Forage analyses as a base of feeding of horses....Pages 305-314
Effects of foaling season on growth and development of Lusitano suckling foals raised on extensive grazing systems....Pages 315-318
Effects of traditional versus novel feeding management on 24 hour time budget of stabled horses....Pages 319-321
Effect of inoculation of laminitic-prone, equine faecal inocula with varying forage sources with or without live yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ) on in vitro gas production parameters....Pages 323-326
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Feeding forage before or after oats affects caecum pH profiles of the horse....Pages 327-330
The usage of forage analyses in optimizing horse nutrition in Finland....Pages 331-334
Blood glucose, lactate, urea, β-hydroxybutyrate, NEFA and insulin in Norwegian trotter horses fed different diets....Pages 335-339
Lusitano horses in Portugal without access to pasture are at risk of having low serum levels of vitamin E: a pilot study....Pages 341-342
Effect of yucca ( Yucca schidigera ) on ammonia levels from equine excreta in the stable....Pages 343-346
Influence of fat supplementation on mare’s milk composition....Pages 347-350
Effect of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids supplementation on development of equine and mule nursing foals....Pages 351-353
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
The fermentation of hay and starch when incubated in vitro with faecal inoccula from either normal healthy horses or horses with a history of laminitis....Pages 357-361
 In vitro gas production from colon contents in electrolyte supplemented horses....Pages 363-365
Effects of electrolyte supplementation on colonic contents and faeces in horses....Pages 367-369
Effect of the inclusion of ricinoleic acid from castor oil ( Ricinus communis L.) in equine diet based on Bermuda grass hay: glycemic and insulinemic response....Pages 371-372
Effect of the use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on apparent digestibility in horses diet....Pages 373-375
Effect of ricinoleic acid from castor oil ( Ricinus communis L.) inclusion in equine diet on total apparent digestibility....Pages 377-378
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
Relationship between body condition and neck crest score systems and subcutaneous fat, tissue and muscle ultrasonic measurements in horses....Pages 381-386
Evaluation of body condition score in horses by ultrasonography....Pages 387-390
Relationship between ultrasound subcutaneous fat depth, body condition score and body subcutaneous fat distribution in Miranda breed jennets....Pages 391-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Ethnoveterinary applied to Equidae in the Alentejo, south Portugal....Pages 401-411
A combined trial of chemotherapy and biological control measures against parasites in grazing horses....Pages 413-417
Effect of Duddingtonia flagrans chlamydospores on the control of parasite infection in grazing horses....Pages 419-423
Parasite control in Miranda Donkeys as a way of keeping animal welfare....Pages 425-431
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Addition of Duddingtonia flagrans chlamydospores to the concentrate feed can improve the successful of control measures against strongyle infection in horses....Pages 433-436
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
Equids contribution to sustainable development in rural areas: a new challenge for the third millennium....Pages 439-452
Socio-economic impact of horse production on rural areas: a comparison between Ireland and France....Pages 453-465
Territories and grassland exploitation by horses in France....Pages 467-480
The Portuguese Garrano breed: an efficient and sustainable production system....Pages 481-484
Quantitative assessment of enteric methane emission and nitrogen excretion by equines....Pages 485-492
Inorganic, soluble faecal phosphorus excretion in growing horses fed forage-only diets....Pages 493-496
Front Matter....Pages 497-497
Effects of body weight restriction on blood and adipose tissue adipokines and macrophage activation in obese and insulin-resistant ponies....Pages 499-502
Study of the lymphocyte proliferation of neonate foals from mares supplemented with linseed oil and soybean oil....Pages 503-505
Back Matter....Pages 507-509