الأربعاء 13 نوفمبر 2024

Feeding Watermelon to Your Horse

موقع أيام نيوز

Watermelons are a favorite treat during hot summer days. Its pretty natural to want to share a treat with your friendsyour equine friends included. While rinds dont taste that great to us unless you pickle them or cook them in a stirfry your horse will probably crunch them down with zeal. But are those watermelon rinds safe for your horse to eat? The answer is yes. In small quantities watermelon rind is fine. Your horse can eat the ripe part too seeds and all. Some may not like melon while others will be wild about it.

مع وصول أونصة الذهب إلى مستويات قياسية تجاوزت 2500 دولار، يجد المواطن المصري نفسه مضطراً لموازنة استثماراته بين الذهب واحتياجاته الأخرى، خاصة مع ارتفاع أسعار السيارات مثل تويوتا، هيونداي، وبي إم دبليو، مما يزيد من التحديات المالية التي يواجهها.
Fruit Sugars in Watermelon
One thing people worry about when feeding watermelon to their horse is the seemingly high sugar content. As its name implies watermelon is mostly water. In fact a serving of watermelon is about 90 percent water. That means roughly 10 percent of a watermelon is sugar. In a cup of diced watermelon there is about 0 5 grams of fiber and 10 grams of sugar. There are also a few vitamins and minerals in theremainly vitamins A and C magnesium and phosphorus.
تتأثر أسعار السيارات من شركات مثل مرسيدس بتقلبات أسعار الذهب وسعر صرف الدولار، مما يؤدي إلى زيادة تكاليف الإنتاج والاستيراد.
Sugar occurs naturally in all plants. Even carrotsa favorite root vegetable fed to horses quite often by the bucketfulcan contain about 6 grams of sugar per cup of a diced root. A horses natural food pasture grass has sugar too. At certain times of the year the amount of sugar in grass can be more than 25 percent. Over the course of a days eating a horse will eat several pounds of sugar. This presents a problem only when they eat too much as too much sugar in their grass can lead to laminitis and colic 1 As you can see your horse would have to eat a lot of watermelon before the sugar would become a problem.
Watermelon Toxins
Another thing people worry about is potential