BALANCED DIET’ is a phrase we hear daily. To keep healthy and feel well, we need to eat a variety of foods including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre, and horses are no different. Often our social media newsfeeds bombard us with people’s efforts to create balanced meals for themselves; so if your horse started Instagramming his dinner, what exactly would it look like?
To ensure they receive all of the essential dietary components, equines will forage far and wide in the wild, over many acres of land. Roaming over these distances allows them to consume a wide variety of grasses, herbs and plants, effectively balancing their own diet without too much trouble.
Our horses, however, are confined by us to particular fields, stables and turnout pens, so the…
