Contents : Part A - Growth and development The fundamentals - Growth and development in the equine - Physiology of growth and development Growth curves and effects of some factors - Thoroughbred growth characterized by a baseline and systematic deviation - The effect of age of dam on birth weight and growth rate of Thoroughbred foals - Growth patterns in Thoroughbred horses during the second year of life - Percentiles: a simple tool to monitor the growth of Thoroughbreds - Predicting growth rates and mature sizes in Morgan horses - First results from a morphological approach to draught foal and filly growth in the Ardennes: 1. Evolution as a function of age - First results from a morphological approach to draught foal and filly growth in the Ardennes: 2. Calculating growth curbs - Effect of nutrition on the growth curve of weanling foals - The influence of mineral supplementation on the growth of Lusitano foals - Growth rates in Hanoverian Warmblood foals and the development of osteochondrosis Part B - Energy and protein requirements The fundamentals - Energy and protein metabolism of normal growth - Evaluation of energy and protein requirements and recommended allowances in growing horses The applications - Rations for intensive growth in young horses - Feeding the young horse managed with moderate growth Synthesis and prospects - Energy and protein requirements for growth: A european perspective Part C - Minerals and vitamins requirements The fundamentals - The physiological role of minerals and vitamins in the growing horse - Evaluation of mineral and vitamin requirements for growing horses The applications - Common feeding practices and supply of minerals and vitamins - Influence of management and nutrition on growth in the young horse Experimental and field studies - Studies on the metabolic situation of mares and their foals during an early period after birth - Feeding practice in Hanoverian Warmblood mares and foals with regard to the incidence of osteochondrose Part D - Role of nutrition on developmental diseases The fundamentals - Developmental diseases affecting growing horses - The potential impact of nutrition on bone growth in horses - Effect of exercise and diet on the incidence of DOD The applications - Feeding practices and prevention of developmental diseases Experimental and field studies - Body composition in transition mares and suckling foals - Developmental diseases of 230 foals in Basse-Normandie - Changes in bone markers and intact parathyroid hormone with regard to the incidence of osteochondrosis in growing Hanoverian Warmblood foals - Comparing bone metabolic parameters for Ardennes foals and draught horses - The influence of mineral supplementation on skeleton formation in Lusitano foals - Clinical use of naloxone/calcium association in the meconium impaction and prevention of stress-related disorders of weaning in foals