Best friends but need very different diets....

[JackDaniels1]

What to do....?

Old skinny minnie moved into a larger field with plenty of grass to try and put on weight, other one doesn't need the grass (& is barefoot) so is still in usual field but now both keep calling each other and standing at the entrance gate wanting to be in together.

I feel cruel for separating them and it is more work but I thought it was the best thing for oldie as he's looking too skinny for the time of year!

What would you do?

 

[twiggy2]

muzzle the fat one and put them out together

 

[whizzer]

I have this problem with my poor doer as he needs more grass than his field mates but he can't bear to be seperated from them for too long! I have access to a field of grass which is long & lush so he goes on there at night & then spends the day in the other field with his girlfriends on the shorter grass. I tried last summer to have him on the long grass 24/7, massive mistake as he was so miserable(even though the girls were in next door field) that he lost loads of weight & looked terrible.

 

[_HP_]

I have a skinny paddock within the field

 

[Bosworth]

MY TB shares a field with a Highland. Mine can eat anything an keep his figure, the highland only has to look at grass and he puts weight on. We had him fenced in a separate area in the same field with electric fencing and he hated it. So we have put on a basket muzzle and put him in the main field. problem solved, he can be with my boy, and have his grazing restricted. A perfect solution. So if I were you, I would muzzle the barefoot horse and put him in the long grass

 

[WelshDiva]

Agree with what's already been said, muzzle the barefoot one and put them both out in the long grass.

 

[claribella]

I'd set up a track system so the skinny can eat to its heat content on the inside and the other can be on the track with nothing much but will get plenty of exercise and they are just. Bit of electric fencing away from each other