Why cereal grains for horses should ALWAYS be cooked

Cereal grains such as oats, barley, triticale, corn, rice, rye, sorghum and wheat are commonplace in horse diets. When fed well, cereal grains form a valuable component of many horse’s rations.

But fed improperly, and they will cause large shifts in your horse’s gut microbial population, causing dysbiosis and a host of serious health and behavioural issues. Issues that can be so severe they will end the performance career of your horse and in the worst cases, even lead to death!