Hello everyone!

[Malicob23]

Hello to you all, I'm enjoying reading all your helpful funny and touching posts. I've a very fat new cob I'll be glad to get a few ideas about to lose her some weight and restart her ridden work.

 

[nagblagger]

Hi and welcome.
My cob is rather 'chunky' at the moment so unable to help.

 

[ycbm]

Hi

 

[Rumtytum]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Bob notacob]

Hi, Bob is in denial on the chunky front. He claims he has anorexia as when he looks in the school mirrors he sees a fat horse! Its a bit tricky at the moment . Grass around here has gone a bit mad. The late spring ,cold nights warm days, drought, torrential down pours. We have Lammi problems on so many yards. The new hay is like sugar powered rocket fuel and the old hay is running low. The main thing is to get them out walking it off before the problems set in . The ground is also hard here so anything above a walk is asking to shock the laminae . So sorry , typical old hand horse owner .Doom and gloom) Tell us about your new mare, pics are a must! Get fitting tack ,get a good instructor /friend, and get on .Take it all slowly and remember it is fun/great/fulfilling/addictive.Luv from Bob and Mike.

 

[Malicob23]

That's made me smile! I think we're set to start properly now the farrier has been and the non slip saddle pad seems to hold up! It's a bit of a tall order as poor fatty-tank has an enormous flat top back with it's own channel that actually holds water things are so voluptuous... She's at least keen to go and hasn't taken persuasion to ride out. I've promised to upload pictures on my thread here where I asked if anyone could show me what a 14.2 cob back should actually l like once the weight tape arrives I'll fess up to the extent of the problem. There's no hay to be had here as you rightly said, so it's trickle fed low sugar haylage and a better latch to my garden which she's broken into having seen the green lawn, poor thing. It's reassuring other cob devotees share the same struggles with the generous appetites. Thank you!

 

[Bob notacob]

Cob lovers of the world unite!

 

[Bob notacob]

Do NOT worry about what other horses look like ,only worry about your own,and be realistic. We are not all built like athletes or fashion models but we just do our best, (I include myself here)

 

[Highmileagecob]

And reassure yourself that cobs do not have an 'off' switch when it comes to eating. They live to eat, not the other way round. My lad lived very happily in a Tough 1 Easy Breathe muzzle until his teeth started to fail. Now we have so little grass, I'm having to supplement.

 

[Malicob23]

Grass here has turned yellow. After minimal rain I can see new green shoots here and there but it's not going to be brilliant as until now nothings been grazed at my place in 30 years. High up and mountainous looking down at the sea with winds that in the winter can only be described as biblical it's very very open and exposed. Not at all like any grazing I've come across until Wales. There's alot of herbs amongst it especially wild garlic and plantain. My elderly friend jokingly said the garlic will be stimulating her appetite( for heavens sake!) The local farmers sold off their older hay in bulk, earlier before she got here to make way for the new coming in now and I'd initially managed to buy a few bales but they were poor and mostly rotting so had to be broken up and sorted through so now it's haylage until the new stuff from this year can be used. I'm heartened by those of you with cobs as it seems like we're all resolved to lifelong weight watching. I'm used to other extremes, either tb or draughts, and though the low sugar rules still apply it was more a case of the worry of can they keep their weight over winter. I think miss fatty could winter 3 times over with her voluminous covering. It's true to say the learning with horses just never ends. I'm not young but have had some great advice from people who could be my grandchildren on here so I'm glad to hear it from you all