How To Choose The Proper Hay For Your Horse
An adult horse will eat about 2% of its body weight every day, and experts recommend that half of the food eaten daily should be hay. All hay is basically divided into two categories which are grass and legumes. Legume hay is much more nutritious than grass hay, and has more calcium and protein. Check inside the bales of hay to get a better look at it. Though some of the hay may be discolored, this is not a cause for concern.
Choose hay which is green and soft. The stems on the hay should be fine. Don’t buy hay which smells moldy and looks fermented. Purchase hay which has been harvested while the plants were still in bloom. Study it to determine how mature it is. Don’t purchase hay which has lots of dirt, weeds, or other materials which are not healthy for your horse. Avoid purchasing hay from bales which are heavy or seem like they are wet.
Once you have purchased the hay you want to place it in a dry place which is not in the sun, rain, or snow. You may also want to have the hay checked by a specialist to make sure it is rich in content. His name was plastered all over every newspaper in the world. In June of 1973 he came to the Belmont Stakes with the chance to become the first triple crown winner in 25 years. This is something that had never happened before or since. Writers from all over struggled to explain what it was about this horse that was so incredible. In a book written by Marvin Drager, called “The Most Glorious Crown”, the author gathered a number of clips from all round the country with words printed about this magnificent horse. Some of the comments were one of a kind in themselves. He is the apparently unflawed hunk of beauty and beast they search for doggedly in the racing charts every day, and never seemed to find. His supporters rhapsodize over him as though he is a four-legged Nureyev, extolling virtues of his musculature, his grace, his urine specimens. If he were to lose the Belmont the country may turn sullen and mutinous. Certainly, horse racing had never seen anything like it before.
That’s why in 2003, when Funny Cide was about to make a bid for triple crown glory, the media came out in droves. But that’s what makes headlines, when an everyday horse can actually challenge royalty. I looked a lot older than my age and I had no trouble placing the bet. I had saved up 00 I had earned at the Dairy Queen that summer. As my father was a gambler I knew all about the ponies. By the time I was 12 I knew how to handicap a racing form.
