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Basically, wanting to know how much feed I'd use up each week.
I'm putting my fat TB mare on fibre gee and high fibre nuts, she's going to have two small feeds a day.
I'm ordering one bag each of these for the first week on livery at brack.
How often do you think I'd need to buy these just for one horse. She'll eventually change to fibre gee and pater cubes.
She's curently a field horse. Anyway, this has been advised by a nutritionist.
Do you think just one bag of fibre gee and one bag of high fibre nuts would last one or two weeks?
I have no idea how big the bags are.
Thanks a lot.
 
Ask my horses nutritionist. & because she's gonna be in work everyday with a limited turnout..& they said to feed her that until she loses weight sooo..
 
I'm sure the nutritionist would be able to tell you that :) however I too can't see the logic in that - using the Baileys feed calculator, it told me my good doer only required a balancer :)

Maybe they are trying to get you to buy their food? (if its a feed manufacturer selling you it?)

I don't pretend to be a nutritionist but if she's getting too much calories from grass surely she has some to work off before she needs to be supplemented back up for work done?
 
Use the internet to find out how large the sacks are, and calculate the amount of feed the nutritionalist told you to give her, you will easily find out how long the bags last.
 
Yeah that's what I began to think. I am actually buying my feed off of them. Would you say just to give her hay and turn her out when she can be turned out? I do see why she'd get a feed because obviously she's gonna be in a lot more heavy work but I don't see why I'd give her feed to be honest!
 
I think they may be trying to get money off me, they didn't actually tell me how much to give her, just said- you will need two of these bags a week but maybe buy four for the first week to see if she needs more so I was like I'll just order two thanks haha! Would you be able to guess how much feed she have?
 
Feed according to work load and amount of grass. If shes out currently but not working, i wouldnt feed her. If shes doing hard work then i would just give her a small meal after youve ridden. I dont understand why they would tell you to feed an animal if its overweight and out on grass! I too think there after your money!
 
My 6yr old WB, is worked 6-7 days including competing and is out 24/7, he gets a very small handful of chaff, and spillers pony cubes, plus lots of calmer!!! :D
 
I can only tell you what I'll be doing with my ISH chubby when she comes back into work, she'll come in by day with restricted hay and have a handful of mix with a balancer just to say well done after a ride.
It'll stay that way until she starts to lose weight and tone up - then I'll go back to Baileys and get another feed calculator from them for her workload and weight.

As I said, I'm no nutritionist!!

Try using this and see what it says to you :D
http://www.baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk/feedingexplained/calculator.htm
 
Yeah I think people in this forum are actually speaking the truth to me! haha!
I'm gonna go with a feed after being ridden and she can have maybe 2 haynets a day and some turnout. It sounds cruel but I need to get her fit, she was SO lazy and stubborn yesterday! haha! & I wanna compete but she's just too unfit and fat hahaha! bless her!
For a thoroughbred though, would you go with fibre gee and high fibre nuts OR paster cubes and fibre gee?
 
Yeahh I think I will do the same to be honest!
It seems the best option. Fibre can actually be quite fatty, hense feeding it to a tb.
I say one small feed after a ride. If she's not ridden, she'll still have one obviously the other horses will be getting fed and it wouldn't be fair!
Just have to be careful with thoroughbreds, fizzy etc!
Ahh thank you so much for the link and everything :D
 
I'm no nutritionist and every horse is different so I won't/can't comment on what you've been told . . . I will tell you what my boy (Polish sport horse - high degree of TB) gets. He's 16.2 and is in medium work (30 mins to an hour, 6 days/week - schooling, lunging, jumping, galloping on track). He is out from 4.30 p.m. to 7.00 a.m. on relatively poor grazing, plus he gets 1/4 scoop Alpha A Molasses Free and 1/4 scoop Blue Chip Original twice a day, plus haylage with breakfast and at lunchtime. And that's it. I bought new bags of both Alpha A and Blue Chip about 3 weeks before we moved yards and he's been at the new yard for 2 weeks. I'd be highly suspicious of any feed merchant who reckoned Kal could get through a bag of hard feed in even a month (and he's not a particularly good do-er - I have to rug him up well in the winter and supplement his feed with SpeediBeet).

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Also, do you think that if I gave her two small feeds a day of fibre gee and high fibre nuts, how long do you think it would take? Giving her, 1/4 scoop of gee nuts and 1/2 a scoop of high fibre nuts?xx
 
Why are you using two different feeds? Sounds like a lot of faffing about to me. IMHO feed companies always tell you to feed too much as they want your money!!!
 
I would just give fibregee and a balancer to make sure she has all the vits / mins and then a haynet when she's in and nothing when turned out. Personally I wouldn't start feeding larger amounts until she was well into a new work routine , better to start the fitness slowly with less feed and then up it after six - eight weeks when the more strenuous work starts. I think you are worrying too much about how long each bag will last , you'll only know that once you get going in your fitness plan.
 
She's a thoroughbred, hense all the fibre.
I'm not worrying too much about how much each bag is going to last. I thought I'd sorted out what feed she'd need to have which is simply why I'm asking that question so I can work out costs for when I move her to a new livery yard. What amounts would you recommend? Yeah I am aware of giving her small amounts just trying to work out how much and why the feed merchants think that one horse is going to get through two massive bags of hard feed in a week having two small ones a day..
 
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