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Our cob is now out 24/7. He is in light exercise, just walking as he is overweight and unfit.( Unhorsey mum riding as daughter lost interest. but can not part with him, so on a hard learning curve) I have his paddock cut in to half. Been told the grazing isnt too good. But should I be feeding him something? As I want to make sure I do the right thing by him. He was borderline lami last year.
 
You could put him on a feed balancer like Baileys Lo-cal, as this will prvide your ned with all vits and minerals, mix with a lami-friendly chaff. Then make sure he is on minimal grazing!!
 
Congratulations on your endeavour! Feeding wise I ditto Inders. All the best with your horse
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A handful or two of hi fi light or safe and sound and a vit/min supplement. Much cheaper than a balancer and will do the job. And a salt lick.
 
Either give him just a feed balancer or to save on costs give him a good all round vitamin/mineral supplement such as 'Feedmark's Benevit' mixed with a couple of handfuls of any low calorie chaff.
With either the balancer or the supplement make sure you feed it at the recommended dose / weight or he will be missing out on essential nutrients and you will be wasting your time and money.
Hope that helps.
 
Ditto the chaff/vit & min supplement - but only a handful of something like Dengie Good Doer, and then monitor his weight.

As an aside, I, too have a horse which was supposed to be for my daughter. We have owned him for 12 years, and for about eight of these, my daughter hasn't been to see him more than once a week or so, and doesn't contribute to his keep in any way.
It was a complete question of heart over head, because, although I am 'horsey', he is not the horse for me as he is unpredictable and spooky to hack out.
So I am lumbered with a horse I don't ride, who's 24 now and a very, very expensive pet. I am also at the age where I am finding it increasingly hard to do all the work involved. I should have sold him years ago; I wish I didn't love him.
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Ditto the chaff/vit & min supplement - but only a handful of something like Dengie Good Doer, and then monitor his weight.

As an aside, I, too have a horse which was supposed to be for my daughter. We have owned him for 12 years, and for about eight of these, my daughter hasn't been to see him more than once a week or so, and doesn't contribute to his keep in any way.
It was a complete question of heart over head, because, although I am 'horsey', he is not the horse for me as he is unpredictable and spooky to hack out.
So I am lumbered with a horse I don't ride, who's 24 now and a very, very expensive pet. I am also at the age where I am finding it increasingly hard to do all the work involved. I should have sold him years ago; I wish I didn't love him.
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I am just so amazed how these horses get to us. ( perhaps I should of had horses and not children all those years ago.....)He has conquered my fear of horses, so I do owe him. I am very lucky as he is a really safe cob and makes me feel safe. He has always been at a yard where most things were done for us. But as my daughter decided she "needed" to move yards as there was a lots more hacks, big school, cross country couse! So Iam trying to learn good horse management as it is not done for us anymore.

We have had him for 5 years. He is my soul mate, as I feel in a different world when i am riding him. A real tonic.

Sorry this was a little long
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Again, thanks for your great support

Mandy
 
Hi, another vote for a good multi vit/min supplement in a double handful of tasty chaff once a day. Plus offer him access to a salt block. During summer I would not have thought it necessary to give him a Balancer. Not unless he specifically needs one. Good luck with him
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[quoteWe have had him for 5 years. He is my soul mate, as I feel in a different world when i am riding him. A real tonic.

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That's so lovely to hear
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I'd just re iterate the vitamin supplement + handfull of chaff diet but saddo that I am, Feedmark Benevit works out really cost effective against all the others.

In fact any pelleted feed balancer will be more expensive because it costs more to make. Benevit is also linseed based so you shouldn't need to feed extra oil, as for the chaff just scour the ingredients for hidden sugar such as molasses or 'light syrup' which is another phrase they like to use but it's all just bloomin sugar which will play havoc with laminitis.
 
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