Horse Diet ...

[Intrigue]

This may be a strange ass question, so please forgive me, but what the hell do horses eat? I mean, I know they are genetically gifted/awesome animals but all those veins, all that mass, by just eating grass/hay/oats? Can anyone tell me what these animals are on? I would love to do the same.

-I

 

[creep]

I think it has something to do with all the exercise they get.

 

[Intrigue]

It has to be more than exercise, Im sorry.

 

[SuKY_GeNeTiCs]

Must be horse genetics. I think there bodies are naturally muscular due to supporting all that weight and the fact that they run on all fours. If humans did that, our arms would be jacked. Look at human distance runners, yeah skinny, but there legs are ripped up.

 

[creep]

Maybe EQ?

 

[Intrigue]

That's true. Wish I could get what they got.

 

[creep]

That's true. Wish I could get what they got.

You can..

 

[PuckIt]

um-- hey is for horses thats just what my little sister says, so it might be true

no they eat barrely, grains, oats and carrots

 

[Grainger]

ahhahaha....YOU GUYS CRACK ME UP!

Don't go and try eating just oats etc. to gain weight like a horse cause it's not going to happen.

Animals have a totally different digestive system than we do. (The enzymes are different....for example, cows can digest the cellulose (sugar) in grass but humans cannot and we shit it out.)

They are able to utilize food differently becuase they have different metabolic pathways.

later,
a biochemist