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Are Peppermints Spoiling My Horse's Diet?

7 years 7 months ago #897 by Kate

Are Peppermints Spoiling My Horse's Diet? was created by Kate

One peppermint candy is approximately 5 grams, all sugar. So feeding five peppermints would equate to 25 grams of sugar (about 0.1 megacalories of energy, or 100 calories). Therefore, feeding a few peppermint candies isn’t going to impact your horse’s diet significantly.

Obesity in horses can lead to health problems. Here are tips for feeding overweight horses to promote weight loss.

Calories can creep into your horse’s diet when you overfeed your horse, don’t carefully weigh his hay, or you feed a concentrated feed or even a ration balancer. While ration balancers can help top off nutrients that might be limited in hay, feeding 1-2 lbs of one per day could add 2-3 megacalories. A horse being fed to lose weight might be limited to only 12-14 megacalories per day as it is. Your horse might be better off getting more of those calories from hay and receiving a concentrated vitamin-mineral supplement (fed at 50-100 grams per day) and a protein supplement, such as soybean meal, if needed. Shannon Pratt-Phillips, MSc, PhD

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