I understand. It is hard to give up beliefs that rock our very foundations. This article is NOT about the digestive processes of one species. Any species - cattle, swine, goats, chickens or no species could be substituted for horses. This article discusses what happens when feeding equal amounts of digestible energy. No matter what warm blooded digestive process is examined this statement is irrefutable.......Fiber digestion generates more body heat........and taken in context Feeding corn does not make them hot in terms of body heat, but will in terms of increased activity. In fact, feeding oats to provide the same amount of digestible energy per day (as corn) will generate more body heat because oats have a higher fiber content than corn. Fiber digestion generates more body heat. Therefore oats, not corn, will actually produce more body heat.The misinformation on this forum that corn singularly causes an increase in body heat has been repeated so many times on this forum that it has become gospel. And when that misinformation is challenged by numbers irrational excuses are created.
I was challenged in a prior different thread when I stated corn was considered a hot feed not because it generated internal heat but ounce for ounce provided more available energy than any other grain. Now if someone smarter than I would prove me wrong with something other than opinion and conjecture, I'd appreciate it.
