STARCH VS FIBRE - AN EXPERIMENT ON FOALS
I’m a big fan of the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science. One very recent article really grabbed my attention and I will attempt to translate it into more layman terms below. The full article citation is at the end of this post. The article is titled the super catchy, ‘Growth rates of Thoroughbred foals and in vitro gut health parameters when fed a cereal or an all fibre creep feed’. Essentially this experiment looked at whether thoroughbred (TB) foals grow as big and as fas