RhiannonE
Well-Known Member
Hi,
Before Whisper i've always had exciteable TB's or TB types who needed lots of feed as they could never keep weight on and calming stuff and who knows what else. Pretty much all of them were fed on Hi Fi, spillers cool mix, little cod liver oil and garlic granules.
Whisper was on chaff and leisure mix when I brought him so I have kept him on this but changed "chaff" to Hi Fi variety and also added cod liver oil.
Recently now that he's fitter he's been doing more work - typically schooled once or twice a week, lunged/jumped once a week and hacked out 2-4 times a week. So on average he has one day "off" a week. He's out on grass for the majority of the day now and has small feed morning and night and a small haynet.
He's not at all overweight but I think being a connemara could easily put on weight if I allowed him too.
He's started eating dirt so he's obviously not getting enough nutrients from his current feed - any suggestions on what he would be good on? (I feed also farriers formula because his feet were poor)
Thanks
Rhi
Before Whisper i've always had exciteable TB's or TB types who needed lots of feed as they could never keep weight on and calming stuff and who knows what else. Pretty much all of them were fed on Hi Fi, spillers cool mix, little cod liver oil and garlic granules.
Whisper was on chaff and leisure mix when I brought him so I have kept him on this but changed "chaff" to Hi Fi variety and also added cod liver oil.
Recently now that he's fitter he's been doing more work - typically schooled once or twice a week, lunged/jumped once a week and hacked out 2-4 times a week. So on average he has one day "off" a week. He's out on grass for the majority of the day now and has small feed morning and night and a small haynet.
He's not at all overweight but I think being a connemara could easily put on weight if I allowed him too.
He's started eating dirt so he's obviously not getting enough nutrients from his current feed - any suggestions on what he would be good on? (I feed also farriers formula because his feet were poor)
Thanks
Rhi