RachelB
Well-Known Member
Just wrote a really good long post and accidentally deleted it all so excuse me if I write a bit odd as I'm really annoyed!
Horse is a 15.3hh middleweight ID X (TB?) 11yo.
I had my mare on Spillers Happy Hoof and Bailey's Top Line Cubes with a splash of apple cider vinegar through last summer and autumn after I bought her looking a bit poor but with a big belly (I think she is just built with a big belly tbh though):
She worked up until November on this, had a couple of weeks off for lameness and looked like this:
I changed her on to Bailey's Working Horse and Pony Cubes on the reccomendation of a Bailey's person at YHL, and worked her through December fine on this. 2007 has been a bit iffy so far as she's had more time off than she has worked and she now has less of a 'drop' to her belly (it's flatter on the underside) and she has sort of sunken flanks. I'm a bit worried that she's losing condition now on the roughly 1kg Happy Hoof she's currently getting (along with Equivite Original and other supplements). She is now on rest due to lameness, hasn't been worked since Feb 3rd other than an occasional lunge or walk up the road, and is kept in 12pm-8am. She's not overly stressed about it all as she is a laid-back person, but it does seem to be taking its toll on her and I think she is feeling underworked.
I really want to put some condition back on her but am reluctant to start feeding hard food again as when she first went lame I kept up the nuts (at a reduced ration) but she started going hyper in the field and teashing the place, and was getting strong to handle. I also don't want to encourage her belly to get any bigger again, as the only good thing that has come out of her having a rest is that that huge belly has got smaller!
I don't particularly want to take her off the Happy Hoof as I like that it has vits and mins in, and was thinking about ditching the Equivite for the cider vinegar again as I think I'm wasting my money on that (hasn't made a difference). I thought about putting her on NAF Pink Powder until we change to summer routine (out at night) and she's less confined and stressed. I don't know thought if I should be thinking about changing her feed? I'm a bit worried that she will drop off entirely all of a sudden, she looked very sucked in tonight at the flanks.
Anyway I hope that makes sense, thanks for reading if you got to the bottom of this! Any info I may have missed just prod me!
Any advice greatly appreciated! And hopefully I'll get some pics of her tomorrow too.
Cheers!
Horse is a 15.3hh middleweight ID X (TB?) 11yo.
I had my mare on Spillers Happy Hoof and Bailey's Top Line Cubes with a splash of apple cider vinegar through last summer and autumn after I bought her looking a bit poor but with a big belly (I think she is just built with a big belly tbh though):
She worked up until November on this, had a couple of weeks off for lameness and looked like this:
I changed her on to Bailey's Working Horse and Pony Cubes on the reccomendation of a Bailey's person at YHL, and worked her through December fine on this. 2007 has been a bit iffy so far as she's had more time off than she has worked and she now has less of a 'drop' to her belly (it's flatter on the underside) and she has sort of sunken flanks. I'm a bit worried that she's losing condition now on the roughly 1kg Happy Hoof she's currently getting (along with Equivite Original and other supplements). She is now on rest due to lameness, hasn't been worked since Feb 3rd other than an occasional lunge or walk up the road, and is kept in 12pm-8am. She's not overly stressed about it all as she is a laid-back person, but it does seem to be taking its toll on her and I think she is feeling underworked.
I really want to put some condition back on her but am reluctant to start feeding hard food again as when she first went lame I kept up the nuts (at a reduced ration) but she started going hyper in the field and teashing the place, and was getting strong to handle. I also don't want to encourage her belly to get any bigger again, as the only good thing that has come out of her having a rest is that that huge belly has got smaller!
I don't particularly want to take her off the Happy Hoof as I like that it has vits and mins in, and was thinking about ditching the Equivite for the cider vinegar again as I think I'm wasting my money on that (hasn't made a difference). I thought about putting her on NAF Pink Powder until we change to summer routine (out at night) and she's less confined and stressed. I don't know thought if I should be thinking about changing her feed? I'm a bit worried that she will drop off entirely all of a sudden, she looked very sucked in tonight at the flanks.
Anyway I hope that makes sense, thanks for reading if you got to the bottom of this! Any info I may have missed just prod me!
Any advice greatly appreciated! And hopefully I'll get some pics of her tomorrow too.
Cheers!
