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Ration Tool

Upload a label or hay analysis. Let the math do the rest.

What this is. The NRC daily nutrient requirements for horses. Pick your horse's mature weight and life stage to see its targets, expressed as total amounts per day. Use it to understand what a horse needs, or to sanity-check a diet.For a full analysis that adds up the feeds you actually use, head to the Ration Tool tab.
What this is. Composition of about 200 common feeds and forages from the NRC library. Search by name, sort any column, and click a feed for its full profile. Values are on a dry-matter basis.To see how a feed fits a specific horse, add it in the Ration Tool tab, or import your own from a label or analysis.

Groundwork Ration Tool

Let the math do the math.

Drop in a hay analysis, or snap a photo of a feed label, and I read the numbers for you and check the whole diet against NRC requirements. You feed as fed; the science is compared on a dry-matter basis. Numbers don’t lie, so let the computer handle the arithmetic. You focus on the horse.

1 Tell me about the horse
2 Add feeds — or import a PDF / photo
3 See the analysis instantly

Step 1 · The horse

Step 2 · What you're feeding

Drop in a hay analysis or feed label
Upload a PDF hay analysis or a feed label (photo or PDF) and I read the numbers for you — no typing.
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It reads the values automatically, and it’s been reliable in our testing — you still get to confirm every number before it’s added, so give them a quick once-over against the document.

—  or build it by hand  —

The 2D → 3D difference

This is a 2D analysis. Your horse is 3D.

Numbers are two dimensions, and this tool does that part honestly: what the diet supplies, what the horse needs, and where the gaps are. The math doesn’t lie.

The third dimension is the horse standing in front of you. Body condition and topline. Workload and temperament. Gut health and history. The hay you can actually get this season, and what has changed since last. That is the part I do, reading the math and the horse together, so the plan fits the animal and not just the spreadsheet.

When you are ready to move from a 2D analysis to a 3D one, that is where I come in.

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