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Post by anastasia55555 on Jul 5, 2009 22:41:59 GMT 1
ok, Toffee 13.2h, rather old, occasional light hack. has devils claw and moody mare type supplement almost every day. she has few handfuls of molichaff herbal, scoop of pony nuts, and scoop of Kwikbeet (think thats the one, molassus free, lami society supported), and usually clove of garlic and a carrot. lives out with a herd in a fairly small patch of field, ex-dairy pasture tho but has been on a pretty poor paddock since winter till now, has put a bit of weight on, but needed to really. hard to judge as she is a little 'pot-bellied' looking but not actually fat. loan pony Saxon has wedge of soaked hay (now soaked for 24hrs again, as a few little lumps (not bites) appeared on crest area), just under a scoop of happy hoof with mag ox, brewers yeast and little soya oil and also a clove of garlic, also started giving bit of sugar beet, and grazing has been cut back a bit again, and looking at making path ways etc to encourage him to walk round more. trying to fill him up more on the fibre rather than the grass. there is still grass to nibble on in the paddock but not lush like some of the other fields!
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Post by dptc on Jul 5, 2009 22:46:53 GMT 1
14 yr old 14.3 Welsh Section D suffered laminitis last December but doing well and now hacking out 3 times a week and perfect weight, she gets a scoop of Fibregold's Easylite and handful of Fast Fibre, Supplements she gets are magnesium oxide, rosehip and a linseed, garlic and mint mix and Metabolic Horse Safe Joint supplement - she is in a restricted grazing paddock 24/7. This will be upped a little as I up her work load
4yr old 12.2 Dartmoor long lined twice a week and "played with" most days (getting used to everything before backing) is also on restricted grazing for weight management! He gets half a scoop of Easylite and half handful of Fast Fibre with a linseed, garlic & mint supplement
Salt lick always in field.
In the winter they will get hay and probably more feed, they live out unrugged and I will assess it as we go
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Post by Zuzan on Jul 6, 2009 8:31:12 GMT 1
6yo CB x TB in moderate work.. out at grass 24/7 - this is poor permanent upland grazing.. Barefoot
fed once a day..
one handful of dried speedibeet - when soaked fills a litre icecream tub... I add 20g of salt to this.. handful of dried grass chop / but am thinking about switching to Alfa A Lite a beaker of micronised linseed Equimins Hoofmender (reccomended amount) My own mix made up of brewers yeast, rosehips, ainiseed, fennel seed, celery seed and sprinkling of sunflower seed and Gobal Herbs garlic.
MTA to add Mag Ox (maintenance)
In winter there is a round bale of hay and a round bale of hayledge and they have full run of 40 acres or so of richer (summer cow pasture) grazing
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Post by jennyb on Jul 6, 2009 13:33:54 GMT 1
15hh 5yo Lipizzaner in light work. Hacked 2-3 times per week, schooled once per week, lunged/long lined/worked in hand to make up to 5 work sessions per week. Competed lightly once per month. Out on grass (currently shortening off a patch and then will be strip grazed). Out 24/7 in summer, in overnight in winter with ad lib hay at night. Other than that, has a handful of Good Do-er, 1 measure of Bailey's Lo Cal, MgOx and Micronised Linseed. I don't feed anything at the recommended amounts as he gets some nutrients from the grass/hay and is a very good doer and is inclined to go completely off his head if he gets too much rich food! I feed by eye rather than recommended amounts - he looks well, therefore I keep doing what I'm doing! If he looks thin, he gets more food, if he looks fat, he gets less. Simples
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Post by jennyg on Jul 6, 2009 13:32:52 GMT 1
14.3hh 7 year old Irish cob mare (light weight build). She's currently 470kg on the weight tape & it looking a bit portly, but not too bad.
Summer time:
She's out 24/7 on fairly sparse grazing, she gets 3 quarters of a scoop of Dengie Hi-Fi Original so that i have something to mix her NAF general purpose vitamin & mineral supplement into & she's also currently getting some Cal-Mag fed at the recommended rates (although she wouldn't normally have this - just wanted to see if the magnesium made any difference to her behaviour while the grass is growing fast).
She also gets a small slice of hay (1.5kg) that's been soaked for 12 hours just because she likes to come in out of the flies for a while in the evenings as she gets quite itchy.
Winter time:
As above but minus the Cal-Mag & also she gets more hay, I don't tend to soak it in the winter & it gets increased to about 6kg a day. She'll also have a larger area to graze.
Modified to add that she's in light work - throughout the summer she's hacked out about 4 times a week, 2 of those hacks may be up to about 2 hours with some trotting and cantering.
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Post by naturegirl on Jul 6, 2009 13:41:02 GMT 1
21 year old Arab gelding - retired endurance horse. Simple Sytems Lucie nuts for tea with sunflower oil, devils claw, Avimore glucosamine, Total eclipse, scoop of sugarbeet. Out currently 24/7. Is worked maybe five hours a week. Some hacking, some school work.
6 year Thoroughbred gelding - retired as racehorse, now hoping to compete at endurance and dressage. Lives out 24/7 currently. No extras as is quite fat for a tb but is fed Lucie nuts and total eclipse and sugarbeet and oil when in at night. Again worked approx 5 hours a week.
Went for simple systems as horses at opposite ends of the scale and they both do REALLY well on it.
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Post by chrissiew on Jul 6, 2009 15:17:28 GMT 1
14 year old Danish warmblood mare, currently a pasture pet on injury time.
24/7 grass - how much depends on how she is doing on it, as I fence her field off according to her needs. Occasional soaked hay again depending on requirements.
1 flat round scoop Alpha Oil just to carry her supplements (only Alpha Oil as that was what she was on before her injury and I'm too tight to buy her anything else till its finished.......!!)
Supplements : Cosequin, MSM, Boswellia, Benevit and magnesium. At the moment she is also finishing up some Silver Lining Kidney herbs, then will go onto Global Herbs Tendoneze.
Winter, she comes in at night and a lot of the day if the weather is bad (her decision!) and is on ad lib haylage and again Alpha A of some description, speedibeet, hi fibre nuts if not in work.
When in work (which isn't likely any time soon), she has Allen & Page Power and Performance (fantastic comp. feed).
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Post by K8 on Jul 6, 2009 17:28:06 GMT 1
We have 6... I'll tell you about one of the mares!
Simple systems, Double handful lucie stalks, Half scoop lucie cubes, Half small scoop total eclipse, half small scoop linseed, 3 tiny scoops seaweed.
Light work. 15'1hh 12yrs. Was very out of condition when we got her in march.. now doing much much better. (black mare in sig)!
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Post by kjr on Jul 6, 2009 18:55:28 GMT 1
Toffee - 14.3 part arab, good doer in light work, our during the day and in at night. He has handful of Dengie Healthy hooves (token jesture really as there's more than enough grass for him atm - he had a level round stubbs scoop in the winter). Overnight he has small amount of hayledge - again was more in the winter. He is kept on a livery yard who make their own hayledge / hay - they have made hay this year not hayledge - it'll be interesing to see what difference this makes if any.
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Post by Catrin on Jul 6, 2009 19:16:23 GMT 1
two TBs, one 21, one 12, light hacking most days, 24 turnout in paddock stable area mostly, sometimes restricted access to rye/clover grass field when the sheep have been on it. Daily each: 500g Speedibeet, 500g Optigro (replaced Total Eclipse on the advice of an equine nutritionist), 50 ml magnesium and 25 ml salt to supplememnt deficiences in haylage analysis and ad lib haylage.
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Post by aniapril on Jul 6, 2009 21:00:35 GMT 1
I own a 14.2 NF 9 year old gelding who is out grazing for most if the year. Fields are dividing up by electric fiencing and livery owner monitors grazing quantity and quality and moves him when necessary to another piece of grazing. This winter was quite wet so he was stabled from mid Dec to early Feb. I am hoping this year he will be out most of the winter. Basically he is fed on grass and when stabled monitered amounts of hay/haylage.
He is a 'pleasure ride' pony who is ridden by me five times a week (30mins) and does a few lessons for novice riders on top of that, again (30 mins). If the livery owner or I noticed any change in his condition we would adjust to his diet. I have owned him for 13 months. He was on all sort of concentratrates when he arrived but that made him fizzy and fat!
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Post by Suz on Jul 6, 2009 22:11:54 GMT 1
11yr old Icelandic gelding ridden 3-6 x a week mixture of hacking, schooling, lunging and occasional pole work. Currently competing about 1x per month at 32-40km novice endurance. Hunts in the winter. mean handful alfa lite, 2 scoops pink powder, about 10 linseed lozenges, salt, electrolites if working hard that day. Night before a comp and morning of gets half a round scoop dry of speedibeet for hydration. On a small patch during day and out in a bigger well grazed field with muzzle at night. Is about a 4 condition score wise, but the weight is slowly coming off.
Will get same feed through winter until he is skinny!
23+ welsh cob type mare. Lame but happy companion. mean handful alfa lite, D+H health and hoof, devils claw, salt when hot. not sure about winter as only got her in march. currently scores 3 try to keep he weight off as it is better for the lame foot.
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Post by silversnaffles on Jul 6, 2009 22:38:03 GMT 1
We have 8, so I will give 2 examples. One standardbred very nervy 15.1hh mare who has been laid off through injury for 9 months. Prior to this she had ad-lib hay (all she could eat basically), fairly rough grazing as that's all we have, chaff and high fibre cubes twice a day. When doing L2 trecs, i.e 20km + training and competition her nuts were replaced with Allen and Page Ride and Relax. Also gets a horslyx whenever she likes. 14.2hh sharp overweight cob. hay when stabled (normally overnight in winter, a few hours in the day in summer). Same rough grass. Chaff and high fibre cubes when in ridden work, no plans to change this as his exercise regime steps up to accomodate L2 trecs. These are field mates so receive the same amount of grass and time in. x x x
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Post by misty on Jul 6, 2009 22:46:18 GMT 1
2 retired boys. One has to have bute so the other has to have about 3 handfuls of chop to stop him knicking the other one's feed. The one on bute has his bute mixed with a scoop of livery mix to make sure he eats it! At the moment the girls are out on grass. Hope to bring them in in the next few days and get their bellies off. They will have adlib hay plus some livery mix.
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Post by jen526 on Jul 7, 2009 9:22:18 GMT 1
2 x forest ponies (13.2 & 13.3 approx):
Live out 24/7 not rugged or clipped, natural shelter. Both in light work. Grazing: approx 1 acre per head all year round. daily: one small handful of alfalfa oatinol with one scoop of mixed vitamins/mineral supplement plus one scoop of biotin. (whole feed fills one utterly butterly pot!) After work one scoop of plain grass nuts with two handfuls of alfalfa oatinol. Winter: ad lib hay.
1 x forest pony (14 h approx). A fatty, not in work (L.O.U.) so same as above but with restricted grazing and obviously no after work feed.
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