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September 5, 1906
The Star
Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
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Practical advice from Indiana Farmer on feeding work horses: regular intervals every five hours, half-hour rest after eating to prevent digestive issues like colic or diarrhoea when working.
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Feeding Work Horses.
Experience and observation teach us that horses that are at work should be fed at regular intervals, and after eating, a half hour's rest given to a tired animal, as it is hurtful to require them to work on a full stomach immediately after eating. If work horses are fed every five hours the meals are digested pretty well in the intervals between eating, and so the horse is in much better condition for work.
A horseman says that most people know how a bucket of water will stop a race horse, but few think how the overcharged stomach affects the lungs of a horse when at work. A horse when fed while heated and out of breath cannot digest its food, and the result is diarrhoea or curiously enough, the extreme opposite in the form of colic or indigestion. -Indiana Farmer.
Experience and observation teach us that horses that are at work should be fed at regular intervals, and after eating, a half hour's rest given to a tired animal, as it is hurtful to require them to work on a full stomach immediately after eating. If work horses are fed every five hours the meals are digested pretty well in the intervals between eating, and so the horse is in much better condition for work.
A horseman says that most people know how a bucket of water will stop a race horse, but few think how the overcharged stomach affects the lungs of a horse when at work. A horse when fed while heated and out of breath cannot digest its food, and the result is diarrhoea or curiously enough, the extreme opposite in the form of colic or indigestion. -Indiana Farmer.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agricultural Advice
Animal Care
What keywords are associated?
Work Horses
Feeding Intervals
Horse Rest
Digestion
Colic
Diarrhoea
Where did it happen?
Indiana
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Indiana
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Advice on feeding work horses at regular intervals with rest after eating to aid digestion and prevent issues like diarrhoea or colic; warns against feeding heated horses.