5/13/2013

Horse Farming and Feed Pellets

The modern horse industry has received good development in developed countries which becomes the main economic growth point and provides a large number of employment opportunities.

The modern horse owners not only require horses are healthy but also hope they are satisfactory in all respects. This drives horse owners to buy top quality horse feeds which have balanced nutrition and make horse receive sensual satisfaction. Horse feeds’ appearance, texture, flavor and palatability are the main considerations when feeding horses. Doubtlessly feed pellets are the optimal feeds for horses.

Feeding horses with feed pellets is considered from horses’ digestive physiological characteristics. Horses have hard teethes and developed masticatory muscle. So feeds with hard texture and soft surface conform to horses. Horse has fast metabolism and strong servitude thus feeds’ residence time in the stomach is short. Feeds with small size and balanced nutrition are good. Horse’s intestinal tract is uneven in thickness therefore they have bad ability in digesting low-quality coarse feeds. Feed pellets are produced based on the nutrition needs of horse, adopt scientific formula and mix a variety of raw materials evenly according to a certain proportion, then with a series of processing to form the final pellets. So pellet feed owns balanced nutrition content and good palatability for horse farming.



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