Daily routine of TB

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Hi all!

New TB owner here!

Just wondering what your daily routine is?

Current owner is feeding 2 hard feeds per day with haylage and horse is out 24/7 until winter.

I'm just curious to know what other people's routines are?

Thanks!
 
Hi,

Lucky you, they are fab horses.

My boy is out 24/7 until winter and has 2 hard feeds a day. No hay/haylage at the moment as he's getting plenty from grass. But as that dies back he'll be getting hay in the field.
Switches to haylage for winter when in at night.
 
Mine has the same routine all year as not keen on being out 24/7, out am till 5pm stabled overnight with a feed and large net of haylage :)
 
Congratulations!! They are pretty good at telling you what they want!!
Mine is currently out 24/7 not much grass, plenty of hay, two feeds a day. When weather changes in at night. Plenty of hay and feeds split into 3 a day. Out every day in winter unless the weather is totally vile or hunt are about!
 
Thank you all. I know it's all very exciting! I must admit I'm a bit apprehensive reading so much about TBs but she is just lovely! Such a beauty.

The girl I got her off says she's actually better in winter when she's in all the time. I'm thinking of stabling her at night or see how it goes.
 
EJR said:
One more question...what hard feed are you feeding?
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Hi EJR, congratulations on buying a TB, they are brilliant horses, I've had them for years and years. My 16.3hh TB gelding is out 24/7 but with plenty of shelter and woods to hide in should the weather turn. I do have the option of stabling him if it gets really nasty but I hope not to. Regarding hard feed, mine gets a scoop of Calm & Condition with 2-3 big handfuls of Alfa-A per day. He gets at least 2hrs of exercise (hacking) per day in all weathers, with the occasional day off. It's not much food but he stuffs himself with good grass & his condition is excellent, happy & glossy. He will get fed more when the temperature drops.
 
Mine is out 24/7 with one scoop of Pure Feed Easy per day plus joint supplement and Electrolytes. He was weighed and conditioned scored yesterday and is a perfect 3.

In winter he's out 12 hours a day with good rugs and has 2 feeds per day and enough hay to leave some every night. He's not greedy. Works 4-5 times a week now at 16.
 
Mine is 7/8ths TB. Summer he's out overnight and stabled during the day with hay. He's a very good doer so only needing one small feed in the evening with his antihistamines in (he's allergic to grass!)

Winter- stabled at night, worked in the morning (on my days off) and then turned out for 5-6 hours. Worked in the evening on my work days. Two feeds a day in winter and ad-lib hay, also hay in the field so he is never without (as he has had gastric ulcers in the past).

Feed wise- I cannot feed him anything with Alfalfa in it as it blows his brain. Currently fed Mollichaff calmer (one of the few non-alfalfa based chaffs), and spillers balancer. Two feeds a day in the winter for mine.
 
Retired TB-

Apr-end Oct
Living out 24/7 2 small feeds Fast Fibre with broad spectrum supplement, magnesium during grass flushes and danilon

Nov- March
In at night with ad-lib haylage, 2 larger feeds Fast Fibre, broad spectrum supplement, magnesium, danilon
 
Thanks all. She's on pony nut cod liver oil and garlic which I'm going to cut out. Don't want to change too much too soon.
 
Worked for an ex jockey with racehorse training brothers, the riding school would get lots of sacked too slow TB's.

We treat them just like any other breed of horse or pony - everyone is different in some ways but generally they do just as well as the rest.

Ours got Meadow and Alfalfa Chaff, either oats or barley, sugarbeet, ground Linseed. and grass, In winter the hacks were paddocked away from the ponies so they got Meadow & Alfalfa Hay, they were only hard fed when they came into work. They wore one wool lined canvas cover with neck rug in winter - we have frosts and snow fall in the area.

Currently I'm now further north, winters are generally milder and I live in the TB breeding area of NZ - hundreds of TB broodmares and youngsters can be seen turned out without covers for the winter.

Many TB's are tougher than most people realise.
 
Mine is tougher than my cob and my part-bred Welsh (who we sadly lost in June). Last winter the two cobs would be desperate to come in evey evening and the TB was always at the other end of the field and had to be dragged in- nomatter what the weather. He would live out happily, but he's actually allergic to grass so this wouldn't work.
 
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