fredflop
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I will do my research on it, however can anyone recommend a barefoot friendly diet for a tb living out, needing to maintain weight, but a reasonable doer
Thank you
Thank you
Or feed something like Agrobs etc and add a decent mineral balancer unless you make your own forage and have your own land. Add a big dose of salt and linseed, less for a good doer, more for a poor one.
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I'm not sure if I've understood you FW? If I made forage off my own land it would be horribly unbalanced in iron and manganese. I prefer to buy in from a more balanced area.
I think she just meant then it is feasible to test your forage.
non molassed grass chaff (a fair few about these days, with varying energy/sugar/starch levels)
micronised linseed (charnwoods)
high spec vit/min supplement (Forageplus, proearth, equimins, equivita) + salt
if horse needs more weight, more linseed, unmolassed beet
more energy, oats.
one of my little blue scoops, that doesn't help does it prob a teaspoon twice a day, more if sweating a lot...
interestingly FP add salt to theirs but I think they are careful to keep it dry on packaging
https://forageplus.co.uk/salt-in-horse-feed-balancers/
there is some maths here if you are interested essentially it depends on sodium requirements
http://www.hygain.com.au/adding-salt-horses-diet/