feeding highland yearlings

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what would you feed a yearling highland colt,he's a tall leggy boy and at the moment is just getting happy hoof and sugar beet as he's in a pretty sparse paddock and he's also getting hay.I'm not one for feeding youngsters too much as i prefer to let them mature naturally and mine do seem to fill out later.I just wonderedwhat anyone was giving theirs
 
nowt:eek: especially at this time of year and defo not sugarbeet - all Id feed is a vit&min field lick or powder supplement in a teenyweeny bit of the happy hoof.
 
Feeding?! A highland?!?!?! As NSN says, nowt!!!!

If he needs more condition, give him more hay. Certainly no hard feed of any description. The most I'd give is a handful of chaff to give supplements with.
 
just to let you know I've had and been breeding highlands for over25yrs now and am well aware of their feeding requirements,however I do believe there are times that certain ponies need a bit of a boost and posted this thread to find out about any new products on the current markets.If you read my post correctly you would see this
 
Personally I'd just up the hay and see what happens there... I personally wouldn't be feeding sugarbeet, just a bowl of chaff and a vitamin lick as I'd've thought that'd be enough to keep them going. Could you just increase their hay and see how that goes?
 
lysander98 said:
just to let you know I've had and been breeding highlands for over25yrs now and am well aware of their feeding requirements,however I do believe there are times that certain ponies need a bit of a boost and posted this thread to find out about any new products on the current markets.If you read my post correctly you would see this
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ouch.

you didnt mention in your op that you wanted to know about any products that are new to the market:confused: and if youve been breeding for 25 years and already know about their feeding requirements, why ask here? I maintain, if he needs a boost just give him a broad spec vit & min supplement rather than sugarbeet.
 
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