Horse bullying

From what i can understand op it's not your horse that is skinny.
For all those saying more hay i agree but i sympthaise with op, she could spend a fortune feeding other peoples horses and if the other owners want their horses like that its not the op business to intefere. Just move your horse, she wont enjoy being bitten until she bleeds or kicked until she is injured, she will be happier away or with another horse.
 
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The grey was only a two year old here and never got pushed off the feeder by the older horses as there was always plenty to go around, even in deep snow as in the photo. It's a much better system than feeding piles of hay IME.

ETA - I have been on livery with this system and the cost of the bales was divided by the number of horses. I paid two shares as I had two horses at the time. It actually worked out to be more economic than small bales.
 
the problem with using the word skinny is that it can range from grossly underweight through to not as fat as in the middle of summer. unless we know where on that scale the horses are its hard to know if they are underweight or not. either way they do sound as if they were having enough hay but hopefully the op has managed to sort out a compromise
 
Mine is also a bit of a delicate blossom low in the pecking order and at the old yard there was a haflinger who used to take chunks out of her on a daily basis. Broken skin, bleeding, huge patches of fur scraped off by teeth, chunks of mane and tail gone. I was the only person who saw a problem with this, of course!

OP I can with 99% confidence assure you that if you move to another yard with better management, you will have a far happier, far more relaxed horse!
 
My view on this would be don't feed hard feed in the field unless you have somewhere you can tape her off on her own until she finishes as 90% of horses get rather arsey around hard feed and if feeding hay in piles space them out so one horse can't guard them all and do one pile more than no of horses (if feeding from a round bale in field consider putting a pile away from the bale so she can eat away from them if needed. )
 
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