Feeding help please

[Tonty Tont]

Tont, a 13hh cob, is currently overweight, which I'm trying hard to change but he's lost quite a bit since I got him.

At the moment, he's getting a large pile of hay morning and night (as the fields are covered in snow.

In his feed at night, he has:
1 and 1/2 mugs of baileys lo-cal;
2 cups of Fast Fibre;
A double handful of chaff;
And his breathing supplement and mint.

The problem is, the lady I keep him with wants to feed in the morning. She wants to give him the same feed as the other three, as it doesn't matter who gets which bowl (picture a 68 year old women struggling up a hill with four feed bowls and four horses fighting over them).

She feeds a double handful, and a quarter of a stubbs scoop of calm and condition.

Does what I'm feeding him already sound ok, and would the calm and condition harm his weight too much?

Thank you, Nicole

A VERY large muffin for anyone who reads this

 

[FanyDuChamp]

Is there any reason why he is getting hard feed, the Bailey's? If he is over weight surely he can make do with just haylage / hay and his supplements beet and good doer chaff in his bucket?

Fany was obese when we bought her and she has slimmed down a lot, she only gets haylage and the odd succulent. She also has a lick. She is holding her weight well and is perfectly happy.

Obviously I don't know Tont so it is just an opinion, please don't think I am being rude. I know how hard it is to get weight off and keep it off a really good doer

FDC

 

[Tonty Tont]

Thank you for the reply FDC

The Bailey's Lo-Cal is his balancer, and he looks well in him self, soft coat ect, so I'm keen to keep him on it.

Well done with Fany, Tont is impossible to get slim

 

[FanyDuChamp]

If he is well and fit, if he is happy and looking good then maybe that is more or less the right weight for him? I mean he isn't a TB, he looks okay to me, a bit round around the barrel but I am not the greatest judge.
FDC

 

[spotty_pony]

I think you are right to be giving him a balancer. I also feed both of mine Baileys Lo-Cal and they are both good doers and do very well on it. I wouldn't really want to be giving him Calm and Condition though if he is a good doer so maybe you could ask her to just give hom a handful of chaff when the others have theirs so he doesn't feel left out? It sounds like what you are feeding him is alright though.