Help Losing Weight!!!

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bumblelion

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Can anyone give me any tips/advice on how to drop weight off my ID. He's on paddock rest due to arthritis, so can't bring in, can't be worked. He's out with my tb on 3 acres at the moment with grass! I can't separate the horses as the tb gets very upset and they can't move fields! I'v tried muzzling him, he gets very irrate and gallops around defeating the object of sedate paddock rest! Then he takes it out on my tb, kicking the s**t out of him! He's unrugged, unless I know it's going to rain, then it's a LW. He gets a handful of chaff twice a day with joint supp and pink powder. Have to give him this "feed" as tb needs feeding and allows me to do rug change and feet etc whilst their licking out bowls!

Can anyone think of any way I could somehow get some weight off him!!
 
Set up a track system around the edge of the field, about 15' wide with a few areas where it's a bit wider, search threads on paddock paradise, it works - it really does, as you are encouraging gentle movement, it's alot of work setting up but really worth it! Little squares of grazing aren't so good, horses cannot move around so well and the weight never seems to shift!
If you can't do that, is he allowed to walk out in hand? If so, that's another good way to help with the weiht loss.
 
Thanks for advice. However, I'v tried strip grazing him next to tb but he doesn't respect electric at all, whatever the voltage and ends up shredding himself breaking free!! I can't put up more permanent fencing as we're renting and the landlord won't agree to it!
I'm quite worried as he's really overweight,which obviously doesn't help his joints but more worried about laminitis at this time of the year! He's a companion for my tb which I took on as a rescue case (not the best companion, a 17hh bolshy, unleadable unless in a chiffney horse but I love him dearly!). Hopefully, according to the vet he'll be able to return to light work this summer, so do I just leave him and wait until then? Although whether I can do enough work for him to drop any I don't know! I hoped he'd have lost some during the winter but no!
Far easier to keep weight on tb than to lose any off him!!
 
SJcrazee said:
Set up a track system around the edge of the field, about 15' wide with a few areas where it's a bit wider, search threads on paddock paradise, it works - it really does, as you are encouraging gentle movement, it's alot of work setting up but really worth it! Little squares of grazing aren't so good, horses cannot move around so well and the weight never seems to shift!
If you can't do that, is he allowed to walk out in hand? If so, that's another good way to help with the weiht loss.
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This paddock paradise sounds quite good! He may take to that as it gives him some interest and variety! Thankyou will look into it!
 
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