Growth and development of foals were examined in terms of body weight
and body condition score, wither and hip heights, lengths of body, for
earm and cannon bones, girth and circumferences of the physis and fetl
ocks. The experimental plan included two dietary groups of mares with
foals maintained on pasture and supplemented with either a corn and mo
lasses based sweet leed (SS), or a corn oil and fiber supplement (FF).
Body weight and body condition scores were similar for both groups fr
om birth until the following March when both declined in the SS group;
when later switched to the FF diet, the SS group compensated in weigh
t and condition.