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Tips for feeding special needs horses in the winter Micro-Phase TM Preventing winter weight gain in easy keepers. • Monitor your horse’s weight carefully during winter breaks and, if necessary, back off on concentrates. Weight loss in hard keepers and how to avoid a winter energy crisis. • Long hair coats often mask weight loss, so monitor your horse’s weight carefully. • Provide free-choice high-quality forage 24/7, when possible. • When additional calories are needed, add a high-fat supplement to the diet. • Provide a digestive tract supplement to ensure digestive health and stimulate the appetite. • Continue feeding a low starch and sugar diet throughout the winter months. • When additional calories are needed to keep your horse warm in cold weather, increase the amount of grass hay you feed. • If you need even more calories to maintain body weight or provide energy, add a high-fat supplement that is low in starch and sugar to the diet. Ensure your horse’s nutrient requirements are met this winter. Micro-Phase offers the perfect solution by providing the vitamins and trace minerals necessary to support good health. Micro-Phase is recommended for: • Easy keepers • Horses on restricted diets (processed forages and small quantities of concentrates) • Horses without access to at least part-time grazing on quality pasture grass • Horses consuming feeds grown in deficient areas • Senior horses in need of additional nutrients Micro-Phase contains highly bioavailable vitamins, natural vitamin E, and chelated minerals. [email protected] KPPusa.com 859-873-2974 Careful winter management reduces the risk of health problems in metabolically challenged horses. Copyright © 2015 Kentucky Performance Products, LLC. All rights reserved. Natural vitamin E supplementation is critical in winter months when pastures are dormant and mostly hay is fed. Hay Pasture Winter Spring Summer Fall Vitamin E levels supplied in processed forages and green grass • Adult Horse: (heart girth x heart girth x body length) ÷ 330 = body weight in pounds • Yearling: (heart girth x heart girth x body length) ÷ 301 = body weight in pounds • Weanling: (heart girth x heart girth x body length) ÷ 280 = body weight in pounds Heart Girth Body Length When you feed less than the recommended amounts of a commercial concentrate, you need to supplement with a complete vitamin and mineral pellet to ensure your horse’s nutrient requirements are met. Never cut back on hay to reduce calorie intake; instead, change to a more mature grass hay that will provide plenty of fiber but less energy. Tip for Easy Keepers EQUINE WEIGHT FORMULAS (measurements in inches) A Horse’s Nutritional Requirements in Winter Vitamin and mineral pellet Commercial concentrate Forage

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Tips for feeding special needs horses in the winter

Micro-PhaseTM

Preventing winter weight gain in easy keepers.

• Monitor your horse’s weight carefully during winter breaks and, if necessary, back o� on concentrates.

Weight loss in hard keepers and how to avoid a winter energy crisis.

• Long hair coats often mask weight loss, so monitor your horse’s weight carefully. • Provide free-choice high-quality forage 24/7, when possible.• When additional calories are needed, add a high-fat supplement to the diet. • Provide a digestive tract supplement to ensure digestive health and stimulate the appetite.

• Continue feeding a low starch and sugar diet throughout the winter months.• When additional calories are needed to keep your horse warm in cold weather, increase the amount of grass hay you feed.• If you need even more calories to maintain body weight or provide energy, add a high-fat supplement that is low in starch and sugar to the diet.

Ensure your horse’s nutrient requirements are met this winter. Micro-Phase o�ers the perfect solution by providing the vitamins and trace minerals necessary to support good health.

Micro-Phase is recommended for:

• Easy keepers

• Horses on restricted diets (processed forages and small quantities of concentrates)

• Horses without access to at least part-time grazing on quality pasture grass

• Horses consuming feeds grown in de�cient areas

• Senior horses in need of additional nutrients

Micro-Phase contains highly bioavailable vitamins, natural vitamin E, and chelated minerals.

[email protected]

Careful winter management reduces the risk of health problems in metabolically challenged horses.

Natural vitamin E supplementation is critical in winter months when pastures are dormant and mostly hay is fed.

Hay Pasture

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• Adult Horse: (heart girth x heart girth x body length) ÷ 330 = body weight in pounds• Yearling: (heart girth x heart girth x body length) ÷ 301 = body weight in pounds• Weanling: (heart girth x heart girth x body length) ÷ 280 = body weight in pounds

Heart Girth

Body Length

When you feed less than the recommended amounts of a commercial concentrate, you need to supplement

with a complete vitamin and mineral pellet to ensure your horse’s nutrient requirements are met.

Never cut back on hay to reduce calorie intake; instead, change to a more mature grass hay that

will provide plenty of �ber but less energy.

Tip for Easy Keepers

EQUINE WEIGHT FORMULAS (measurements in inches)

A Horse’s Nutritional Requirements in Winter

Vitamin and mineral pellet

Commercial concentrate

Forage