TheEquine |

TheEquine |: "With so much rain falling on the fields this summer, Britain’s green and luscious land is looking greener than ever and the grass is growing so fast you can almost see it shooting up as you stand and watch it. Left to their own devices many horses, with unlimited access to the temptations of fresh grass, will spend as much time as they possibly can eating it, which can result in obesity and other health related problems.
In some ways over-eating is considered to be a natural phenomenon. Studies of wild equids, such as the zebra shows that in the summer they graze continually, munching every last blade of grass that they can find so that their stomachs swell and they become extremely obese. Then, as winter approaches and there is less grass for them to eat their condition drops dramatically. Weaker zebras, that are unable to cope with these changes, die whilst the fittest survive and breed. "