Following on from the post below what do you feed your horse?

I like to feed only fibre so 16.3hh shire x cob has:

Either healthy hooves or hifi lite with some high fibre cubes and a vit/min supplement xx
 
Best hay available and then an oat based diet.Not going to be short of Calcium either ,the water is loaded with it.(everyone forgets the Calcium in the water)
 
Grass. A bit of hedge. Lots of cow parsley although they have got bored of it now... oh yes, some leaves off the trees. Hi-fi & speedibeet.
 
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Em gets:

x1 round scoop Dengi Hi-Fi lite
x1 handfull Rands and Wilson Fibre Excel
x1 dinky scoop Baileys garlic powder
x1 dinky scoop biotin

all twice a day

plus x1 slice hay each meal (now there's grass hurray)
 
the ginger one gets a quarter scoop of pony nuts
quarter scoop of chaff
three handfuls of spillers slow release comp mix
garlic
superflex
veteran supplement

I'm playing with the amount of comp mix atm because he was feeling a little flat but I don't want to end up with him feeling like he has a rocket up his bum :rolleyes:
 
Mollichaff Original (only chaff she doesn't choke on), A&P Fast Fibre, and Bailey's Lo Cal. She would be on hay or even just grass, but there's no green stuff and she chokes on hay. Darned horse.
I do try to avoid cereals, though.
 
Top Chop lite (unmollassed and no additives.. apart from mint ;) )
Micronised Linseed
Unmollassed beet...
rosehips and spring - autumn magOx

In winter I use Readigrass chop instead of the Top Chop lite as good source of beta carotene when we have no to virtually no grass.. they have round bale straw as fodder
 
mines on ad lib hay at the mo, we have plenty of grass but the bugger breaks out of all the other fields. this is the only one he is ok with.
so at the moment he is on that and he may get either a carrot or an apple.

During winter he will have a mug of spillers original balancer, a mug of spillers cool mix, mixed with chaff and water. when it gets really chilly he'll have sugarbeet too.
and of course, more hay.

he's a chunky 16.3hh TB
 
A handful of Dengie hi fi lite morning and night and daily turnout in a rather sparse field. In the winter he gets half a mug Baileys lo cal balancer morning and night as well.

Also gets approx 6lbs of Equilage on a nightime, little bugger has COPD and coughs on even the most soaked of hay!

Sounds like I'm starving him to death when I read that but he is a little fattie and prone to Laminitis. Anything but a starvation diet and he ends up overweight. He is still full of beans so I must be doing something right!
 
my 2 year old filly gets 1 scoop mare and youngstock mix and hi fi molasses free chaff twice a day and my gelding gets a handful of the hi fi twice a day
 
Handful of Hi-Fi light & half a cup of Bailey's lo-cal balancer, twice a day.

At night he gets one haynet (which he never finishes) & is out on not-so-brilliant grazing. But he is a fat-prone native - he isn't just starved! :D
 
Our grass is very poor so they are fed a lot of hay. Belle has A&P Fast Fibre with Dengie HiFi Lite, Noah has the same with some added conditioning cubes (he is coming in at night after an operation whereas the others are turned out full time, he lacks condition) and the 2 little ponies have just a small amount of HiFi Lite.

Our grass is so poor (though it is going to green up thanks to rain) that the ponies have remained out in the big field. They have been coming in on alternate nights, taking it in turns to keep Noah company in the stables. Soon I will have to think about limiting their grass intake more.
 
4 mugs of Low Cal Balancer & grass ATM, but I am considering adding something else if the grass doesn't start to pick up soon. Never seen my filly look so slim at this time of year. It's good ATM but I wouldn't want her dropping off any more.
 
Grass that you would think barely able to sustain a sheep let alone a 15.3/16hh shire X TB! :rolleyes: lol. I'll know if she's truly hungry though if she starts eating the trees.

In winter 1/4 scoop pony nuts morning & evening & about 1/2 a bale of hay.

p.s. I'm not cruel she came out of winter rather rotund & currently trying to slim her down!
 
Grass in summer and adlib haylage in winter.
Last winter he ate chaff, and balancer with some s'beet added when it was snowy and fibre nuts in his ball.
I've just changed his feed as the balancer has gone up in price and he doesn't need it on the grass. Now he's having a mug of fast fibre and a mug of ride and relax as a token feed as he's a bit fat. I will increase it in winter to a scoop of fast fibre and a scoop of ride and relax plus some veg oil per day :). It works out cheaper then adding all the component separately like I was doing.
He's a 16.1 6yr old TB.
 
Riding pony (native prone to weight gain) gets Happy Hoof, sometimes nuts for extra bit of energy if we are going out a lot, splash of cod liver oil and garlic granules.

2 yearold gets Suregrow, Hifi Original, and garlic

Both have strip grazing and are going well although not enitrely convinced on youngsters diet yet!
 
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