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    The Horse’s Gastro-Intestinal (GI) Tract Digestion

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    By David Marlin on 6 July 2022 Articles
    1. The GI tract is effectively a single tube that starts at the mouth and ends at the anus.
    2. The GI tract of the horse consists of the mouth, the oesophagus (which take food from the mouth tothe stomach), the stomach, the small intestine, the large intestine and anus.
    3. The horse’s GI tract weight around 12% of its total bodyweight compared with 6% in humans. Themain difference is in the hindgut (large intestine) due to the fact that horses are herbivores and relyso heavily on fermentation of forage by microbes. If horses were carnivores . . .

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