Een stuk uit het boek van Strasser, helaas in het engels over de voeding van een paard met zieke hoeven.
Ik hoop dat het te begrijpen is.

I wanted to take a quote from Strasser's, "Who's Afraid of Founder"
book pertaining to "Dieting" and foundered horses. It may help to
explain some things.

In Chapter VII, Section 3. "Dieting" it says: [It is commonly
believed that laminitis is caused by excess protein in the feed. Due
to this misconception, sick horses are often put on a strict diet.
They are kept off pasture and are fed less (or no) hay but rather
straw.

Every organism needs a basic amount of energy uptake in order to
maintain the body's metabolism. This doesn't just mean than an
animal of a certain weight needs a certain amount of engery, but also
the accompanying vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. In order to
obtain these, a horse must consume a wide variety of plants which, in
the optimal boarding situation, are contained in hay.

When a sick animal is given no hay, or not enough, it must take
molecules necessary to maintain body metabolism out of its own body.
The suitable parts are the muscles, which during "rest" are not much
needed anyway. However, of the molecules contained in the muscles,
the horse only needs certain ones, perhaps 10% of the muscle
proteins; the remaining 90% is "waste". This "waste" must be changed
by the liver into molecules that the body can excrete, a processing
that requires a lot of energy (which the body does not receive
because the horse is on a "diet"). So for this, too, the organism
takes the needed energy from muscle consumption. Afterwards, energy
is required to excrete the waste, and so on. In the end, the horse
has lost a great deal of weight and has deficiencies in all sorts of
substances.

In order to heal damage, more energy is needed than to maintain a
healthy body. A sick horse must therefore be fed more carefully than
a healthy one (depending on its work load, of course).

A big "hunger belly" or water retention under the skin is not a sign
of excessive amounts of richness of feed, but rather of protein
deficiency or metabolic disruptions due to other deficiencies of
essential substances. In such a case, a knowledgeable equine
nutritionist should be contacted for advice before the horse wastes
away.] end quote of Chapter VII, Section 3. "Dieting"

This section is found on page 108 of, "Who's Afraid of Founder".

Piet

Esther schreef op maandag, 18 juli 2005, 19:48:


Ja, natuurlijk wel ervan uitgaande dat de paarden gewoon genoeg hooi kunnen eten he... Als je het hooi in lage bakken doet en er voor zorgt dat ze echt voldoende hebben, dan zullen ze de priel-stukjes die op de grond vallen niet zo snel opeten. Bovendien kun je zelf bepalen waar je de hooi-bakken neerzet, ver uit de buurt van de mestplaatsen dus. Wij hebben gedurende de winter ook alleen maar een klein stuk land, dat is dan compleet kapotgelopen, maar ze eten geen zand en geen mest. Ze krijgen wel voldoende hooi.

Ik denk trouwens dat je in modder beter mest kunt scheppen dan in (hoog!) gras, een beetje modder extra meenemen is niet zo erg maar als je in de weide mest verwijdert dan is het onmogelijk om alles weg te halen.

Ilona
--
let's keep on moving naturally!