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Here's another answer for you - my horse is a mix of Morgan and Arabian - Morab but she is also a very easy keeper. During the winter in NH when it can get bitter during January and February, I have her on a quart of mixed oat feed in the morning and the evening so 2 quarts a day plus all the hay she wants because eating is their way of producing heat. Because I have good pastures, once the green grass comes in late May, the grass will have the highest protein count and the sweetest taste through June. I cut her oats back drastically to a cup in the morning and a cup in the evening and start reducing her hay and let her have this wonderful green grass.
By July, the protein count in grass starts to plummet drastically in New England and in late June and early July is when hay making starts.
In the Civil War, the Quartermasters in charge of producing fodder and pasturing horses, etc wouldn't have understood protein counts the way we do today, but they would have surely understood the cycle of great time of year pasture vs. pastures starting to turn, etc.
By July, the protein count in grass starts to plummet drastically in New England and in late June and early July is when hay making starts.
In the Civil War, the Quartermasters in charge of producing fodder and pasturing horses, etc wouldn't have understood protein counts the way we do today, but they would have surely understood the cycle of great time of year pasture vs. pastures starting to turn, etc.