Amount of conserved forage fed to horses: is there a problem?

Take home message

• There is still a big need to educate horse owners on the importance of feeding enough roughage. This is not only true for people owning one or two horses at a hobby level; but also for professionals and owners of competing horses.
• Veterinarians play an important role in increasing the awareness on this topic.
• Evaluating absolute roughage intake (kg DM/kg BW) should be part of the standard clinical examination of the veterinarian during each consultation as owners are still making too many errors and roughage intake plays an important role in prevention of several disease

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