Everywhere you go nowadays you see horses that are like whales .
People are far more likely to be dealing with horses carrying to much weight in winter than too little .
Horses who are stabled at night are very unlikely to need forage during the day when they are turned out unless their field is one of those awful small individual paddocks that you see in some places .
Horses need to move as much as possible particularly if they are stabled at night not feeding hay in the field .
Of course you need to consider differently horses who tend to loose weight I have never had in all my years had a horse who was well who I struggled to keep weight on I have bought poor horses they are never remained poor doers here .
The vast majority of us need to be thinking I need this horse coming out of winter slimmer than it is now .
My horses where looking good until the second lockdown stopped hunting and despite work have gained weight I had to move fields due to the wet that did not help .
Winter grass is not without calories at this time of year .
