DE: Digestible energy (calories), used to fuel chemical reactions within the body and muscle contraction.
CP: Crude Protein, the major component of muscle, enzymes and hormones.
Ca: Calcium, a mineral making up 35 % of bone structure, involved in muscle contractions and blood clotting.
P: Phosphorus, a mineral making up about 17% of the skeleton, also involved in energy transfer reactions.
Cu: Copper, a mineral involved in synthesis and maintenance of elastics connective tissue
Zn: Zinc, a mineral involved in chemical reactions that are necessary to form bone, skin and connective tissue.
Se: Selenium: a mineral involved as an antioxidant in the body
Mn: Manganese, a mineral involved in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and for the synthesis of chondrotin sulfate necessary for cartilage formation.
I: Iodine, a mineral necessary to form thyroid hormones that regulated basal metabolism
Lys: Lysine, an amino acid, the first limiting amino acid in diets for growing foals
VitA: a vitamin important for vision and born formation
VitE: a vitamin that functions with selenium as an antioxidant
Starch: chain of glucose from plants, when digested glucose is released
NSC: non structural carbohydrate is old term used to describe carbs
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