The influence to the sports horses performance traits of the compound feeds from the heat-treated grain insertion in the diet

Abstract

The efficiency of the horse, high sports results and the effectiveness of recovery after stress, are largely dependent on the characteristics of the organization of nutrition and diet. The comparative assessment of the performance traits and the speed of recovery after workloads in the Oryol trotterhorseis presented in this work. Six horses were each fed diets of hay and cereal grains (HG), hay and combination of cereal grains and compound feed (HGM) in a 2 x 2 Latin-square design study. The performance was assessed by heart rate (HR) indicators using a Polar M400 monitor with an H10 heart rate sensor. Recovery of the heart rate to 80 beats / min after medium work (the average heart rate to 120 beats / min) at HG and HGM horses had no statistically significant differences. Recovery of heart rate to 60 beats / min in the HGM was significantly faster (P <0.05) than in the HG. Under intense workloads (average heart rate above 120 beats / min, or at least 5% of work at a heart rate of 180 beats / min or more), the HGM showed a significant (P <0.05) faster recovery of heart rate values after work than in horses HG. In the course of the study, it was also found that the use of partial replacement of grain concentrates with specialized feeds allows us to reduce the volume of the ration and the total amount of concentrates without changing the structure of the ration.