Below is a short guide to the various types of fibrous foods that can be given to horses: grazing grass, hay, ensiled foodstuff, straw, molichaff, artificially dried grass, enriched forage and complete foods.

Forage can be added to fodder in order to create a sort of “one-course food”, as it has been the norm for cattle for a while. This “one-course food” can be prepared using mixers or can be bought ready-made on the market, including obviously the forage. The second case is typical of horses products, which can have various shapes and sizes: large dark green cubes with white spots (barley seeds) or yellow-orange spots (maize), usually sold in bags. Similar products, on the other hand, can have the form of foodstuffs, these are in fact the complete food we will look at in the last paragraph. This so-called “enriched” forage, i.e. with the addition of richer food such as cereals and legumes, should be given in fairly large quantities (around 10kg) every day, as they replace both fodder and foodstuff. Once again, consumption time is reduced but the horses adapt to them quite easily.