About cereals
Traditionally, oats play an important role in horse feeding, especially in Germany.This is mainly due to a high starch digestibility, a large amount of crude fiber in its spelt and mucilage, which have many positive effects on the stomach and the colon.
However, feeding pure oats also includes the following problems:
- unfavorable balance of calcium and phosphorous
- lack of fat-soluble vitamins
- the amino-acid pattern is imbalanced
Lysine is especially important to mention, since it enables the intake of all other amino-acids in the small intestine. The more lysine a meal contains, the better the digestion of all other amino-acids will function.
That is why we choose protein sources for our feed that contain large amounts of lysine, as for instance potato protein and non-genetically altered soybeans.
