lizzie_liz
Well-Known Member
hello there
Am having a bit of a dilemma as to what to feed my mare and how much, why can't she be simple.
Honey is a 16hh, 10yr old TBxID with navicular (front feet) and artheritis (right hock) but has been sound for the past 4 years and is competing this summer every week or every other week at unaffliated SJ (85cm-1m) courses and unaffliated dressage (P & N).
She is ridden for about 1 1/2 hours every day split into schooling/lunging/jumping in the morning and hacking in the evening.
She is prone to weight gain and have finally got the weight off her! but she can also be quite lazy.
We went competing today and she didn't feel her normal lively self. There is very little grass in the fields at the moment and she is coming in hungry. I am currently feeding her twice a day with a handful of hi fi lite and 1/2 scoop of countrywide competition mix. I give her electrolytes if she sweats alot and i clipped her out this summer.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to feed her and do you think she needs a supplement, i don't want to give her one unless she needs it but we think there is something missing. She regularly has her teeth, saddle and back checked
Thanks for any advice given
Am having a bit of a dilemma as to what to feed my mare and how much, why can't she be simple.
Honey is a 16hh, 10yr old TBxID with navicular (front feet) and artheritis (right hock) but has been sound for the past 4 years and is competing this summer every week or every other week at unaffliated SJ (85cm-1m) courses and unaffliated dressage (P & N).
She is ridden for about 1 1/2 hours every day split into schooling/lunging/jumping in the morning and hacking in the evening.
She is prone to weight gain and have finally got the weight off her! but she can also be quite lazy.
We went competing today and she didn't feel her normal lively self. There is very little grass in the fields at the moment and she is coming in hungry. I am currently feeding her twice a day with a handful of hi fi lite and 1/2 scoop of countrywide competition mix. I give her electrolytes if she sweats alot and i clipped her out this summer.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to feed her and do you think she needs a supplement, i don't want to give her one unless she needs it but we think there is something missing. She regularly has her teeth, saddle and back checked
Thanks for any advice given