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So you feed 2kgs of high calorie forage and then starve the poor thing for the rest of the day?
No he gets straw, did you miss that?
and haylage isn't always high calorie.
So you feed 2kgs of high calorie forage and then starve the poor thing for the rest of the day?
Not many commercial chaffs are grass though are they? unmolassed chaffs can still hide a plethora of hidden nasties, and all those healthy versions containing moglo instead. No thanks.
And not all grass is equal, I would prefer not to feed redigrass/grazeon and alike which is exclusively ryegrass.
We have a couple of different feed merchants deliver orders every week, what you order just goes on the livery bill (DIY) I don't really see why full livery couldn't do the same.
As it is that means several bags of oats, several of speedibeet and several of aspero or leicht gneiss from agrobs.
Straw (high calorie product)
I think all you owners have been bought into the marketing!!!
All feed if you look closely enough is THE SAME!!!
Get over yourselves and unless you have a severely malnourished or undernourished horse, a grass based feed would do you all nicely.
If it is a large yard with say 30 horses all having different feeds that the YO has to order in and then bill the clients according can be time consuming and also can take up more space as you get so many feed bins. I can see why YO's don't want to do this. I think either people order their own feeds in the same way they do supplements or YO supplies a range of feeds that people can use included in the price. If they bulk order they may be able to get discounts and pass on some of the savings to liveries.
I have to say it is by ignoring the marketing hype that has made me look at what actually is in feeds, how they differ and want to go back to straights!
No he gets straw, did you miss that?
and haylage isn't always high calorie.
I have to say it is by ignoring the marketing hype that has made me look at what actually is in feeds, how they differ and want to go back to straights!
I think all you owners have been bought into the marketing!!!
All feed if you look closely enough is THE SAME!!!
Get over yourselves and unless you have a severely malnourished or undernourished horse, a grass based feed would do you all nicely.
Hardly! I can't feed my laminitic bog standard horse and pony cubes or even baileys lo cal triggers him. Formula 4 feet on the other hand has been a god send. Equally I feed thunderbrook chaff over hi-fi/ happy hoof as it contains no molasses! When I was younger most people just went and chose a mix or cube that seemed to suit your horse (ie veteran or cool mix, competition mix etc) and a horrible molasses coated straw chaff or a long soak sugarbeet. I think horse feed has really come a long way and people are seeing the benefit of more natural feeds over lots of starchy cereal feeds.