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Ingestive behaviour of horses offered distillery by-products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

J. Hill  and
A.R. Braithwaite
J. Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Rural Management, Writtle College, Chelmsford, CM1 3RR, United Kingdom
A.R. Braithwaite
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Science and Engineering, Writtle College, Chelmsford, CM1 3RR, United Kingdom
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In the United Kingdom, a range of distillery by-products is available and may have a useful role in the formulation of equine rations. Pagan and Jackson (1991) investigated the ingestive behaviour of horses offered dried distillery by-products at differing rates of inclusion in the diet in a choice-preference study and concluded that they could be offered to 0.2 of the diet DM without adversely affecting ingestion rate. The aim of the study was to investigate the ingestive behaviour of horses offered the various distillery by-products as part of the concentrate component of the diet.

Ten horses were used in the experiment. Five horses (three years of age or under; mean age 1.6 years) and five horses (pregnant mares; mean age 13.2 years) were allocated to two 5 x 5 latin squares. The horses were housed individually, bedded on straw and were offered rations of hay (7.5 kg DM/day) and concentrate (1.8 kg DM/day) at 0700 and 1600 hours.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1999 , 1999 , pp. 144
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1999

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References

Pagan, J.D and Jackson, S.G. 1991. Distiller's dried grains as a feed ingredient for horse rations. Proceedings of the 12th Equine Nutrition and Physiology Society 1991, pp 49–54.Google Scholar