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| jo78 |
Posted - 11 Aug 2010 : 7:07:29 PM
Can i just ask what you are feeding your horses? If anything!
My mare is out 24/7 and she looks great. She is a good doer, and is lightly ridden few times a week.
She hasnt got lots of lush grass, but has got grass, but im not feeding her anything, she has a salt lick and mineral lick.
After a comment by someone today about not feeding my horse, im wondering if i should be???
I just thought because she looks so well and is a good doer, i was doing right thing (especially as her mum is laminitic) |
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| Pauline |
Posted - 12 Aug 2010 : 09:22:38 AM
Unless you have good grazing I would give a balancer,it contains all the mins and Vits your horse will need.
Although we are only in August the autumn / winter is not that far away.
You do not need to feed anything with the balancer. |
| herts_babeuk |
Posted - 12 Aug 2010 : 08:46:04 AM
my TB (who was bought underweight) and yearling arab colt have struggled to keep the weight on all summer, even though they have been in a large field full of grass - they are regularly wormed so I have had to feed them hard feed twice a day
I have been using spillers conditioning fibre with 'build up' mix/cubes
the colt looks good now and the TB is starting to put the weight on too |
| debsnboz |
Posted - 11 Aug 2010 : 10:15:43 PM
I've started Boz on a cup of top spec feed balancer a day. Our grazing is old and sparce, which is the way I want it to keep the pony from balooning, and whilst he does not look bad, he has been doing a little more, and he did not have a great winter last year (due to the terrible skint yard owners refusing to put hay out for the 2 horses there, i tried my best and we moved in Feb). So I am keeping an eye on his condition. |
| Qui Gon Jinn |
Posted - 11 Aug 2010 : 9:43:59 PM
Both my two are out 24/7 and on good grass. Merlyn is working 5 days a week, with a mix of 30 minutes schooling and hacking for an hour. He is a very good doer and gets 8 pieces of Dodson & Horrell Equi Bites each day so that he is getting his dose of minerals and vitamins. He looks great as does my yearling colt who also is on the same diet and is equally well covered! |
| joanna_piana |
Posted - 11 Aug 2010 : 9:12:45 PM
Ditto others, Ishara lives in but literally gets a handful of hard feed to put her supplements in and other than that lives on hay and grass and she is very well covered! Certainly wouldn't feed her if she lived out unless she dropped weight. |
| angel2002 |
Posted - 11 Aug 2010 : 9:06:52 PM
Hi jo78,
Don't listen to what others say...They are probably over-feeding their horses!! What you are doing sounds fine to me and as Callisto says if your mare starts to loose condition as winter approaches then that would be the time to start feeding  |
| Callisto |
Posted - 11 Aug 2010 : 7:50:06 PM
Agree with Mogwai, after all horses are designed to live on grass and in my experience Arabs can be very good doers You do not need to feed just because other people are. If she loses condition due to the scarcity of grass or an increased work rate then that would be the time to reconsider. And then I would recommend a high fibre diet rather than concentrates which can lead to issues, particularly if her mum is laminitic. |
| mogwai |
Posted - 11 Aug 2010 : 7:31:56 PM
If it's not broken don't fix it. Sounds like she's doing just fine!
Ros x |
