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Fifty Years of Research in America on the Nutrition of the Horse¹

Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers—The State University, New Brunswick, N. J.

Abstract

Compared to other livestock, only limited research has been done on the nutrition of the horse in the American area over the last 50 years. This has been due not only to the mechanization of armies and farms but also to the high cost and difficulties of running controlled experiments. The research accomplished has done much to define the roughage requirements of the horse. Significant data have been collected on the role of vitamin A and, to a lesser extent, that of a number of B vitamins. Calcium and phosphorus needs have been investigated and the interrelationship of blood levels established. On the whole, most of the nutritional requirements of the horse must still be derived from those determined for other animals.

Major problems of the future will be related to the race horse because of the increased use of the animal for this purpose. The nutrient requirements of a horse raced as a 2-year-old may be higher than for a horse used for pleasure riding or the usual farm work. Training and running an immature animal is a stress factor which no doubt needs a special dietary regimen, a problem which may make this a very interesting area for future research.

¹ Prepared under project 679 of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Pregnancy Test in Mares.

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