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Table 10.

Comparison of maintenance recommendations

			Maintenance requirement					Comparison to this study^e
Source	Activity level	Horse type	MJ DE kg BW/d	UFC kg BW/day	EWpa kg BW/d	MJ ME kg BW/d	MJ ME kg MBW/d	% over/under	P(T ≤ t) two-tail	Power
This study (2 weeks)		Olympic disciplines				0.1205	0.5853	−1.1%
This study (long-term)		Olympic disciplines				0.1180	0.5920
NRC (US)^a	Sedentary	All horses	0.1267			0.1054		−10.7%
NRC (US)^a	Average voluntary	All horses	0.1392			0.1158		−1.9%	0.08675	0.68
NRC (US)^a	Elevated voluntary	All horses	0.1517			0.1266		7.3%
German^b	Fully trained	Warmbloods				0.1294	0.6120	3.4%
German^b	Moderately trained	Warmbloods				0.1122	0.5304	−10.4%	1.25E-05	0.99
INRA (French)^c	Working period	Riding horse category		0.0373		0.1141	0.5394	−8.9%	8.02E-06	0.99
CVB (Dutch)^d	Working horses	Non-TB mare/gelding			0.0411	0.0991	0.4685	−20.9%	1.45E-13	0.99

^a NRC (2007; US)—converted to ME by multiplying DE by 0.8318, the mean ME/DE ratio from the 60 diets in this study.

^b Coenen et al. (2011; German)—converted MBW to BW on the basis of a 500-kg horse plus 2% supplement for turnout status.

^cINRA (2011; France)—UFC converted to ME using the ME value of 1 kg of barley, 12.05 MJ, and converting MBW to BW on the basis of a 500-kg horse plus 5% for a “riding” horse and 15% for working.

^d Blok (2016; Dutch)—EWpa converted to ME using the ME value of 1 kg of oats, 11.4 MJ, and converting MBW to BW on the basis of a 500-kg horse plus 5% supplement for working status.

^eOvercompared or undercompared to the ME/kg MBW finding of this study, except NRC, which is compared to ME/kg BW.