do you feed hard feed all year round or just in winter??

Winter only for 2 good doers which are natives.
One is on formula4feet
One is on fibre nuts

they get them in treat balls which also keep them amused for oh 5 minutes.
 
Depending on the weather and the grass mine get fed when they require it. The big one has been fed a little bit more than normal this year as they grass hasn't grown as well or as much as I'd have liked. The little one is still on fresh air and getting fatter!

I tend to start of with increasing the hay intake but towards the middle of summer I didn't have any and what was available in the area I would have been disposing of 50% of each bale so I supplemented with some Hi-fi and mix. When I had sourced some fresh cut hay and after letting it rest a while I increased this and decreased the mix.

I will now be feeding hay up until late April probably and keep some back for summer. the hard feed will continue up until probably late march on previous years experience. He will be in moderate work by then and if it looks as though the grass won't sustain that then he will get some supplimentary feed!
 
My horses only get fed in Winter, and at the moment there is so much grass in the fields they are only on haylage at night when they come in. They have ad lib haylage, so are eating all night, with some left over in the morning, and they look so well. 2 DWxTB. 1 TB and one old boy who is conniex ID. i will start to feed them when the weather gets cold and then they are on pura beet, linseed, brewers yeast and lucinuts
 
In summer mine gets a scoop of Healthy Hoof a day just so she has something when the others in the field are getting fed and in winter she gets 2 scoops of No.4 conditioning cubes and 2 scoops of mollichaff showshine. Thats between two feeds a day though.
 
The TB gets fed all year rounds although he gets more in Winter. The two natives don't really get fed at all unless they're in at night and then it's just a token feed so they don't feel left out :p
 
mine get fed all year round, except for 10 weeks or so when they go on the water meadows. The grazing in out little paddock is so bad they need the nutrients.

They have Baileys Everyday cubes (red bag- was economy cubes) and some hifi. pony has Buteless, and Horse has breathe easy herbs, both have garlic. In the winter the horse gets a small amount of sugar beet added and they are on hayledge this year at night.
 
I only hard feed those that need it, and they generally need feeding all year round. All the other have access to either good grass, or good quality haylage. I have evented a horse at BE Intermediate just from Haylage and grass, no hard feed whatsoever. On the other hand I have a little TB in no work who has to be fed all year round. Horses for courses really!
 
Mine gets bucket feed all year round but he doesn't get a lot in the summer as our grass is amazing!!
In the summer he gets HiFi and pink powder, mainly to slow the passage of the rich grass through his gut and help his tummy. He competes most weekends off that. He's out 24/7 in the summer.

Winter he is getting HiFi, pink powder, fibre nuts and oil plus ad lib hay. He also gets kwik beet added if needed but he doesn't often need it.

He doesn't really need much hard feed at all for a TB, I'm lucky :).

Previous horses were fed similar and also didn't need much, if anything in the summer :).

My late mare had oat and barley free mix in the winter, plus magnitude and oestruss. Nothing in summer.

My horse before that ate exactly the same as my current horse.

:)
 
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