hopscotch bandit
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I’m going away on holiday for a week in June and I want to prepare my horses diet in advance.
At the moment she’s on 1 ½ mugs of speedibeet, 1 ½ mugs of leisure mix and a handful of pony nuts mixed with a bit of carrots. This is split between two feeds; breakfast and tea in order to allow her to take her supplements and bute. She’s a really good weight now, she got quite fat at one point so I reduced her paddock (we have very good grazing) cut down her feeds and hay and increased her exercise and she’s lost about 15KG, according to the vet she needs another 10KG off and she should be about right.
I don’t want to continue the speedibeet whilst I’m away on holiday as I need to be reliant on it being soaked and I think it’s too risky in case the staff soak it the night before and it ferments in the heat, or its not soaked sufficiently. She’s not been on chaff for a few months now as she had teeth trouble with a fractured tooth and then started getting food trapped in between her front teeth which was starting inflammation of the gums, so I brush her teeth once a day to get rid of the food build up.
Has anyone any suggestions as to what I can feed that doesn't require soaking? I will most probably make up the feeds and bag them with the supplements already in so all the staff have to do is empty into her bucket and wet.
Thanks for your help
At the moment she’s on 1 ½ mugs of speedibeet, 1 ½ mugs of leisure mix and a handful of pony nuts mixed with a bit of carrots. This is split between two feeds; breakfast and tea in order to allow her to take her supplements and bute. She’s a really good weight now, she got quite fat at one point so I reduced her paddock (we have very good grazing) cut down her feeds and hay and increased her exercise and she’s lost about 15KG, according to the vet she needs another 10KG off and she should be about right.
I don’t want to continue the speedibeet whilst I’m away on holiday as I need to be reliant on it being soaked and I think it’s too risky in case the staff soak it the night before and it ferments in the heat, or its not soaked sufficiently. She’s not been on chaff for a few months now as she had teeth trouble with a fractured tooth and then started getting food trapped in between her front teeth which was starting inflammation of the gums, so I brush her teeth once a day to get rid of the food build up.
Has anyone any suggestions as to what I can feed that doesn't require soaking? I will most probably make up the feeds and bag them with the supplements already in so all the staff have to do is empty into her bucket and wet.
Thanks for your help