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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Thoroughbred foals"”.
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Effects of Diet and Probiotic Supplementation on Stress during Weaning in Thoroughbred Foals
… of diet and probiotic supplement on stress in Thoroughbred foals at weaning. Twenty foals, whose dams were paired by age and breeding date, then randomly assigned to one of two diets prior to parturition, were used. Two groups were maintained on mixed grass pastures and fed supplements, one …
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The influence of month of birth on growth and development of thoroughbred foals and yearlings
Thirteen Thoroughbred farms in Virginia provided 260 horses for the study of growth patterns of horses from birth to July of the yearling year. Measurements included heart girth, wither and hip height, body length, chest width, knee to ground length, cannon bone circumference and body weight, as …
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Growth and the Somatotropic Axis in Young Thoroughbreds
… experiments. Characteristics of growth in 113 Thoroughbred foals born over a five year period were described with a series of empirical and physiological equations. Glycemic and insulinemic responses to different feed compositions were evaluated with glycemic response tests. The 24 hr pattern …
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Growth of Thoroughbreds fed Different Levels of Protein and Supplemented with Lysine and Threonine
… the effects on growth and protein status of Thoroughbred foals offered a supplement with a typical CP level to a supplement that had a lower CP level fortified with limiting amino acids. The control supplement (CS) contained 14% CP, 3.0 Mcal/kg DM, 10% corn oil, 22% soybean meal, 1.4% …
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Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Proteins in the Plasma of Growing Horses
… lead to developmental orthopedic disorders in foals. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of age, diet, growth and season on plasma IGFBP and IGF-I concentrations from birth to 16 mo of age in Thoroughbred foals. Twenty-two mares maintained on mixed grass/legume pasture were …
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Glucose regulation in Thoroughbred weanlings: Regulation by insulin, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I
… glucose metabolism in young horses. Twelve Thoroughbred foals were raised on pasture and supplemented twice daily with a feed high in either sugar and starch (SS) or fat and fiber (FF). As weanlings (age 199 ± 19 d, weight 274 ± 18 kg), the subjects underwent a modified frequent sampling …