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Post by kya on Jan 1, 2007 13:56:39 GMT 1
Blue is out 24/7, blanket clip (swiftly growing in), two scoops of low calorie Happy Hoof per day and ad-lib hay in field and he's still FAt!! Should I pull off his rugs?
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Post by kya on Jan 1, 2007 13:57:57 GMT 1
Ridden for an hour 4-5 times a week. Not much fast work as I'm in a confidence low... more of that later gentle readers.
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Post by jill on Jan 1, 2007 14:14:26 GMT 1
My lot are all lardy monsters too - I let them on some ungrazed fields and they haven't even looked at haylage for a week or more. It's the weather - the grass is still growing. MTA I think it'd be a bit of a shock to the system to get rid of rugs, especially with this wet weather. I'll put mine on a serious diet in late Feb if they are still the same. My problem is Daisy the brood mare - due to foal late May, so I can't reduce her food anytime from March onwards, and she is struggling with the weight now.
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Post by kya on Jan 1, 2007 14:18:17 GMT 1
Well, I must say, having total liberty in the 7 acres I own seems to have done him no favours. I thought winter and no fattening hard feed would have worked. Should I leave him without rugs? Is that truly mean? He's a 15.2 Connemara with a blanket clip and seems full of energy. Certainly nappy today!!
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Post by kya on Jan 1, 2007 14:20:31 GMT 1
I have a light to medium weight rug without a neck that I generally use but idiot me I put him in a heavyweight rug as it's colder today. I think I'm cooking the Christmas turkey! My OH tooks some shots of me going on the New Year hack. What a sight. Limp middle aged hag on a horribly fat disinterested cob. Not exactly uplifting- smile.
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Post by suzieq on Jan 1, 2007 14:25:28 GMT 1
Yep grass still growing, its more lke spring today than 1st Jan!! I'm not sure taking the rug off is a great idea, with a blanket clip, you could drop down a rug weight.. depending on what you have on him?? Mine went on a new field a few weeks ago and are looking rather healthy, the first week they were coming in at 6pm to 2 slices of hay that they couldn't eat they were so full!! If it was me Kya I'd stop the hay if you want him to loose weight.. in 7 acres with 2 horses there is sure to be pleanty of fibre to pick on. oopps crossed posts.. there is always the sweat box aproach, that gets weight off too!!
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Post by kya on Jan 1, 2007 14:28:21 GMT 1
God, I think you might be right. I can put the mare in a small paddock overnight with hay (she's looking fine and doesn't need to drop anything). I'm amazed that they are doing so well in December! I really seem to know less and less the longer I keep horses!
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Post by kya on Jan 1, 2007 15:43:38 GMT 1
I'm considering postint my pics from this morning as a cautionary tale- too proud! The way he was prancing along the road this morning, I had the mental picture of pure equine magnificence. Wrong!
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Post by KoLaTo on Jan 1, 2007 17:04:50 GMT 1
Mine are both fat bloaters as well, they are back in their 4 acre wet mud bath today after a few days in the dry 10 acre. They are in at night to dry them off a bit as i don't like them knee deep in wet mud 24/7. Both leaving their hay despite a new yummy batch delivered so aren't hungry at all, stopped the speedibeet now as well as they just don't need it although were wolfing it all up a couple of wks ago when still out but since they've been in, they are content just to sleep and dry off.......
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Post by sallyandruby on Jan 1, 2007 17:31:36 GMT 1
funnily enough we weighed our lot today and weight tape said jigs was the same weight as last summer and ruby was just 5kg skinnier than last summer. cant believe it, it must be their coats because they both look 10x thiner than they did, actually we thought they were looking really nice and lean !!
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Post by highlanderpony2002 on Jan 1, 2007 20:38:24 GMT 1
Ruby looks pregnant which I hope isn't the case but then so does Jingo and he was gelded in July. I hope not was because she has lived with him until he was gelded
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Post by sallyandruby on Jan 1, 2007 21:02:08 GMT 1
highlanderpony2002- you scared me then didnt think she looked that bad lol. (thought you was saying my ruby looked pregnant !!)
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Post by greyhorses on Jan 1, 2007 21:13:57 GMT 1
I was hoping to get my Blue's summer belly off this winter but I'm not having much joy. He's in a 4 horse field on his own (at livery), has no hard feed and only 2 wedges of hay at night. If I give him three he tends to spread the third across his bed. Hopefully the grass will get worse in Jan/Feb so I have a chance of getting his weight off, although I'm going to ride more often. I can always hope for another horse to move into the field to help eat the grass or churn it up galloping round.
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Post by kya on Jan 1, 2007 21:18:53 GMT 1
That's comforting Nina. I must say I will be in a very different frame of mind this spring and that boy's waistline will not get away from me. I had no idea there was one bit of goodness in the grass and I do still have lots of it.
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Post by highlanderpony2002 on Jan 2, 2007 16:59:48 GMT 1
sorry my Ruby is a three year old welsh cob named after Ruby Walsh because she was born the day he won the cheltenham gold cup on something
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