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When you are asked to provide an expected adult body weight for your young, growing horse, it is commonplace to start with the mothers body weight, and add 10-15% if you have a stallion, or if the father of your young horse is a particularly large horse.

Provide a better service to your clients! Send reports to your horse owners at regular intervals! PC-Horse allows you to mail most reports directly from the program.

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Please note that a litre or another convenient measure does NOT contain 1 kg of feed, provided that it is not calibrated to do so. Use a scale if possible. It is also smart to weigh hay and other roughages to get a good feel for how much a kilo is.

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You may save time by working with ”model horses” in the Professional and Consultant versions. Create the horse types that you use often, and activate them when you talk to a customer.

Use the training page in PC-Horse to understand how you can estimate the training intensity from a level of feeding that you are satisfied with, or alternatively, to find the right level of feeding to a predetermined training intensity.

You may provide feed prices both at the horse level (i.e. if you have different feed prices for different horses) or identical prices for all horses in the stable.

Use the speedbuttons on the ”horse diary” page to enter the latest information of the ration and other horse parameters.

You may add your logo to the contact information to ”brand” your advice in the Consultant version of PC-Horse

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A help function assist you in calculating body weight (kg) from chest girth (cm) - and vice versa.

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By creating your own customised feedlists, you will greatly simplify your work with feeds. Include the roughages and commercial feeds in your own feedlist, together with your own roughages and commercial feeds where you have obtained nutrient analyses from your own supplier.

PC-Horse graphics gives you a rapid analysis of the contribution of each feed to the total provision of every nutrient in the ration.

In the Consultant version you may save horses, stables and feedlists on a drive that you select yourself. For instance on a common server where several users can access the horses (Teachers, students, consultants etc).

All previous reports issued on a horse or a stable can now be easily retrieved in the stables archive

Customise your feedlists! PC-Horse has functions to copy one or more feeds between feedlists, and may even include all feeds in a brand in one operation.

Try always to use the total amounts of nutrients when you create a new feed or are changing the nutrient concentrations in a particular feed. Observe the information on the bag closely. You may find that the bag lists only what is added of a specific nutrient, instead of the total amount (in feed ingredients + added).
For some nutrients oversupply may be a consequence.

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You may any time Prolong or upgrade your PC-Horse license. Any remaining time will be added to the new license during prolongation. If you select to upgrade for instance from a Standard to a Professional version, you will only pay the price difference between the two versions for the remaining days of the license period.

PC-Horse will calculate feed requirements for each stable (per day, week and month) to help in your procurement of feeds.

Do you miss one or more of the nutrients in a roughage feed? Use the “Template feed” function when you define your own roughages. PC-Horse will automatically provide average values for nutrients where analyses are missing.

Do you hesitate to try a new feed brand? PC-Horse allows you to compare nutrient contents among a set of feeds with a click.

A useful tip when you are interested in planning your costs of feeding is to make several feedlists with different feed prices for different purposes (ie on a bag basis or on a wholesale basis etc).

PC-Horse will warn you and provide suggestions when your ration is deficient of too high in one or more nutrients. Tolerance levels are already built into the program.

In the Consultant version you may select the nutrients which will be shown on the screen or included in the written reports.

If you have a young growing horse that is either to thin or to well fed (fat), you can easily compensate the amounts of feed you have to give through the body weight or condition sliders in PC-Horse.

How do I know when the Ca/P or Zn/Cu-quota is correct when I make my diet in PC-Horse?

Make a habit of visiting www.pc-horse.com to check that you are using the latest version of PC-Horse, and that you are using the latest version of the National (UK) feedlist. We try to provide new information material at short, regular intervals.

You should monitor the weight of your young growing horse carefully, and compare with the expected growth curve . The growth curve is a useful tool to pick up disturbances in growth, and introduce corrective measures.

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