monkeynut
Well-Known Member
I have a 3yo cob that has lost a huge amount of condition in just a month.
He is out in the day and in at night, unrugged apart from a rain sheet in the worst of the wet.
He has a big scoop of sugar beet, chaff and general mix, a huge haynet at night and a wad of hay in the field every morning.
The grazing isn't fantastic but it's not awful either.
I'm wondering whether I should start rugging him? And thinking of feeding linseed- I've never fed it as all my previous horses have lived off fresh air. Even my pregnant mare and my ISH are doing ok (though the latter is rugged)
Do you think linseed and more hay will help? Can I feed linseed along with the sugar beet? And will the linseed make him feel too alive (he's slowly being backed!!)?!
Any other suggestions (adlib hay in the field unfortunately isn't an option).
He is out in the day and in at night, unrugged apart from a rain sheet in the worst of the wet.
He has a big scoop of sugar beet, chaff and general mix, a huge haynet at night and a wad of hay in the field every morning.
The grazing isn't fantastic but it's not awful either.
I'm wondering whether I should start rugging him? And thinking of feeding linseed- I've never fed it as all my previous horses have lived off fresh air. Even my pregnant mare and my ISH are doing ok (though the latter is rugged)
Do you think linseed and more hay will help? Can I feed linseed along with the sugar beet? And will the linseed make him feel too alive (he's slowly being backed!!)?!
Any other suggestions (adlib hay in the field unfortunately isn't an option).