Everything Horses and Livestock® Magazine Feb 2019 Vol 4 Issue 1

Everything Horses and Livestock Magazine ®

blood flow by creating a vaso dilation throughout the body. Also,research with chelated trace minerals have shown that if present in the diet and correct levels and combinations do promote both healing of joint damage and prevention of new damage developing. This is a brief explanation of some major benefits of feeding Total Feeds products and especially Total Equine. There are more benefits reported and as more research is uncovered to support them they will be discussed in this magazine.

explain why horses fed Total Equine consume less hay, produce less waste and less gas. These can be explained from research findings Research has shown that certain seaweed does kill and control many gram negative bacteria in the laboratory and transferring this to the rumen or cecum and colon it makes sense as there are several gram negative bacteria that tend to reduce the efficiency of fiber digestion and in the inefficient process, produce excess waste gas. The reason waste gas production is negative to fiber digestion efficiency is the gases methane and carbon dioxide are carbon units that would be used

in the biochemical pathways of the body to create energy and many other important metabolic compounds in the body if they would have been absorbed in the form of volatile fatty acids rather than being expelled as gas. Benefit: One of the most common reports from customers in the improve joint health in performance equine and old equine that have developed arthritic joint problems when feeding Total Equine. Other people have reported reduction in the incidence of OCDs in young, growing horses. Explanation: Research results have indicated that the presence of certain seaweed species in the diet can increase

Dr. Harry Anderson http://www.totalfeeds.com 620-272-1065

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