Grass kept feeding

[RidingAndDriving]

What do you feed a grass kept horse in winter and in summer?

 

[Splish & Masons mum]

errrr, mainly grass...

 

[touchstone]

Depends on the horse, some may do too well in grass and need restricting, others might need supplementary feeding due to work being done or loss of condition; then there are some metabolic/laminitic types that can hardly eat grass at all.

Mine gets restricted grazing and is fed hay or haylage year round along with a good quality chaff and fast fibre with a vit/min supplement. The Manual of Horsemanship is a good book to get the basics.

 

[Depp_by_Chocolate]

For mine, mainly grass in the summer and a high fibre/alfalfa diet in the winter.

 

[Toffee44]

Ab lib hay in weather like this if not a pile each in the evening.

Half scoop of good doer each
Handful of nuts and some speedi beet and supplements.
vit and min lick in the shelters

 

[Ella19]

mine's out on cattle grazing so she literally has a large handful of hifi and a sprinkle of pony nuts to hide her vits and mins in.

 

[Tnavas]

Mine grass, and a large multi mineral block left in the paddock. If grass is in short supply - droought which we seem to be heading for right this moment - Hay, in winter a large round of haylage in the paddock with the top cut off and allowed to eat ad lib.

When I do hard feed it's usually Crushed Barley, Meadow Chaff, Ground Linseed & Sugarbeet

 

[Toast]

it depends. At grass my lot get the following
The kids:
Vits/mins in usually a balancer only
Pony:
Nothing!
Skinny mare:
Old faithfuls & hifi with vits and mins

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[AngieandBen]

My two are out on very long grass 24/7 and only get a handfull of Fast Fibre with their magnesium