No! Certainly starvation will make the horse weaker and usually more tractable, but the side effects can be detrimental. The undernourished working horse is more prone to injury, virus, colds, exhaustion and underperformance. In fact, sometimes the undernourished horse’s behavior will worsen. The best solution for the nervous, excitable, too fast or cranky horse is proper exercise. Nothing can take the place of “wet saddle pads” for therapy. Even in an enclosed paddock, horses will cover many miles in a day. Locking a horse in a 12 x 12 foot stall and cutting down the amount of time he spends eating by cutting his ration naturally lead to anxiety and irritability. Exercise your horse and feed him according to his physiological needs not as you perceive his mental attitude to be.
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