Roasted Chestnuts
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I would rather have a horse that is slightly too fit for purpose than one who ended up injured due to being asked too much of.
I agree with AM.
I agree with AM.
Feeding for Muscle not weight gain
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NeverSayNever
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this makes more sense ^
maccachic
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Fully agree peole get too hung up on numbers, adding this and that and forget about doing an as fed analysis. Balance is the key with any feeding regime.
Fintan
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Hm, this discussion about protein and percentage is sorry for bad language rubbish.
The horse does not need a percentage protein, it will need the right amount and a good quality of protein.
A horse is brutal hard work and I don`t guess that here is some, will need about 1.2 gram of digestible protein per KG of bodyweight.
I write digestible because anything else is not a point of interest. Nobody is eating the package so the saying crude protein is a miss linked information.
If we go to the chipper we dont eat the package we eat the burger. So the "net".
Here is a bit about protein
http://www.ker.com/library/advances/143.pdf
and these endurance horses will work in most cases far harder than our sportive happy hackers.
If you read the article properly you will find out that you can cause a loss of essential trace elements, overfeeding protein and as well many of water soluble vitamins.
Essential for to build enzymes not only digestive enzymes for to digest protein and the rest, also for to build up tissue and to promote the DNA and RNA in regard to cell division.
Some water soluble vitamins have to keep down things like lactic acid, a by product of hard work, and they also work in cooperation with the trace elements in regard to enzymes.
Well this will explain why a proper balancer is essential.
As well, a muscle will only grow as far as the genetics will allow it and also the the work does require more strenght.
And it will shrink within weeks when there is no ask for performance.
There is a very easy reason for.
Muscle tissue is alive and energy consuming. The nature is clever. She is on energy save.
This does mean, if there is no more need for the muscle because there is no exercise like in winter or off season, the muscle will shrink.
The body will store the energy that the muscle would consume as fat for bad times.
It will build savings and reduce the unneccassary energy requirement of not needed muscles for to survive in bad times.
Fat tissue is not energy consuming.
The horse does not need a percentage protein, it will need the right amount and a good quality of protein.
A horse is brutal hard work and I don`t guess that here is some, will need about 1.2 gram of digestible protein per KG of bodyweight.
I write digestible because anything else is not a point of interest. Nobody is eating the package so the saying crude protein is a miss linked information.
If we go to the chipper we dont eat the package we eat the burger. So the "net".
Here is a bit about protein
http://www.ker.com/library/advances/143.pdf
and these endurance horses will work in most cases far harder than our sportive happy hackers.
If you read the article properly you will find out that you can cause a loss of essential trace elements, overfeeding protein and as well many of water soluble vitamins.
Essential for to build enzymes not only digestive enzymes for to digest protein and the rest, also for to build up tissue and to promote the DNA and RNA in regard to cell division.
Some water soluble vitamins have to keep down things like lactic acid, a by product of hard work, and they also work in cooperation with the trace elements in regard to enzymes.
Well this will explain why a proper balancer is essential.
As well, a muscle will only grow as far as the genetics will allow it and also the the work does require more strenght.
And it will shrink within weeks when there is no ask for performance.
There is a very easy reason for.
Muscle tissue is alive and energy consuming. The nature is clever. She is on energy save.
This does mean, if there is no more need for the muscle because there is no exercise like in winter or off season, the muscle will shrink.
The body will store the energy that the muscle would consume as fat for bad times.
It will build savings and reduce the unneccassary energy requirement of not needed muscles for to survive in bad times.
Fat tissue is not energy consuming.