Subj : "The gods bestowed manes on the horses for beauty"
To   : Ogg
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Mar 29 2022 02:25:19

  Re: "The gods bestowed manes on the horses for beauty"
  By: Ogg to Arelor on Mon Mar 28 2022 08:30 pm

 > Is it possible for a horse to overeat if left to natural
 > sources?  If not, maybe she doesn't feel like she's getting
 > enough that she needs?
 > 

Oh, horses are always hungry. Specially domestic ones.

Most barn feeding schedules leave them craving for more food even if they got their daily calory intake.
A horse needs to be chewing food for long periods of time in order to feel right but with a barn schedule
they are likely to get a lot of calories in three or four short meals per day. So they will feel they
have not had enough food and try to bite anything they can find if managed that way.

If you keep horses in a pasture that does not happen, but eventually they will trim all the grass to the
natural trimming level.... at which point they will try to trim if shorter unless moved to another
pasture. Eventually they overgraze the pasture to destruvtion if not taken to another place. Horses would
naturally move to a new pasture in the wild but if they are given no option by us misserable humans they
will just exhaust the current one.

It is hard for a grazing horse to go fat only from grazing, unless the grass is extremely plentiful on an
area or high calory or something. Most horses will balance their calory intake from grass with the "work"
spent moving from here to there in the pasture, playing with other horses, and pulling their human's
beard from time ti time.


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