Feeding a cob?

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I have a 6 year old cob but just can't seem to get his weight or diet right and I can't find a decent nutritionist.. Easily colics when on grass due to greediness so having to use a grazing muzzle, he is stabled in now over winter and puts weight on any advice would be great?
 
soaked hay through a haynet with tiny holes, there are special pones you can buy online, i got one for my chubby mini. plus a balancer so he gets all his vits and minerals.
 
I have a six year old cob too and she's also a very good doer.

What sort of exercise is yours getting at the moment? A couple of exercise sessions per day have been key to mine losing weight. She has limited soaked hay and I've recently decided to add straw as extra forage (meaning her forage intake isn't too restricted but sugar is), as advised by another poster here. She has no other feed but does have grass for a few hours each day and has started to lose some inches from her girth.
 
paddi22 said:
soaked hay through a haynet with tiny holes, there are special pones you can buy online, i got one for my chubby mini. plus a balancer so he gets all his vits and minerals.
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I've got a martsnets slow feeder for mine. It helps her ration last longer, at least :)
 
Soaked hay.

Haynet with tiny holes.

A good quality balancer (we get on well with Bailey's No.14) with a couple of handfuls of oat straw chop to give him something to chew on and all the vits/mins he needs.

You could also leave him with a haynet filled with straw, or a bucket of plain straw chaff to give him something to nibble on when his hay ration runs out.

The secret is filling his belly and giving him plenty to chew on without giving him the calories.

And exercise. As much as you can squeeze in.
 
Mine gets a wheelie bin filled with old hay mixed with straw. Hes not fussed about the straw. He picks at it, but having to root about looking for the hay dramatically slows him down. It also means he never runs out. Hes only 14.1/14.2hh and he can easily eat 15kgs++ of hay overnight, even in a tiny holed trickle net. He goes through about 4/5kgs of hay and 1/2kgs of straw now.
 
FrankieCob said:
Mine gets a wheelie bin filled with old hay mixed with straw. Hes not fussed about the straw. He picks at it, but having to root about looking for the hay dramatically slows him down. It also means he never runs out. Hes only 14.1/14.2hh and he can easily eat 15kgs++ of hay overnight, even in a tiny holed trickle net. He goes through about 4/5kgs of hay and 1/2kgs of straw now.
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thick question, but can you use normal straw or does it have to be a special kind?
 
I used to feed a good doer cob a couple of slices of hay mixed with barley straw. He always ate the hay first, but sorting through the mix slowed his eating down & there was straw left if he was still hungry.
 
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