Foals: The First Year
            
             RUSTY MILLER
             STATEMENT DESCRIBING CAREER GOALS AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
             MASTERS IN ANIMAL SCIENCE
             AUGUST 1, 2000
            
             RESEARCH INTERESTS AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
             Introduction: The following is a report on my research information on foal's nutritional need through there first year of life. This report will also show a research project that I would like to do for my Masters degree
             I. Nutrition
             A. Nutritional Requirement
             1. Details of general nutrition
             2. Requirements
             B. Other items required for good nutrition
             1. Water
             2. Energy, Maintenance, & Growth
             II. Creep Feeding
             A. Reason for creep feeding foals
             1. Why creep feed
             2. When to creep feed
             B. Nutritional advantage for creep feeding
             1. The foal's nutrition needs
             2. Foal feeding guidelines
             3. The end results
             III. Research and personal information
             A. Research project using a group of new born foals
             1. Setting up the research project
             2. Details of what I'm hoping to prove
             B. Personal information
             1. Background information
             2. Detail of work history and professional background
             Conclusion:
             Rusty Miller
             Research project for Masters in Animal Science
             August 1, 2000
             FOALS: THE FIRST YEAR
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             Feeding should be based on both practical experience and scientific research. Horses are kept for a much longer time than most farm animals and feeding programs must support the development of sound feet and legs to sustain along and athletic life.
            
             Nutritional Requirement
             Although horses obviously utilize hay and other roughage more efficiently then of other non-ruminants such as poultry or pigs. The anatomy of the equine G I tract limits this ability as compared with ruminant. The site of fermentation in horses is the cecum and large intestine, where large number of microorganisms digest hemicelluloses and cellulose utilize protein and non-protein nitrogen and synthesize certain vitamins. Some of the products of fermentatio...