hot meals in the winter: yes or no?

[mandwhy]

I will be lucky if I have access to water, let alone hot water, and I don't think I'd really feel the need to bring it from the house as I'm fairly convinced it would go cold anyway, maybe Christmas day I'll give it a try!

 

[OldNag]

I will be lucky if I have access to water, let alone hot water, and I don't think I'd really feel the need to bring it from the house as I'm fairly convinced it would go cold anyway, maybe Christmas day I'll give it a try!

I don't have access to hot water....
I just take a flask to the yard

 

[fatpiggy]

My old girl loved her hot porridge in the winter. I would add the beet to hot water at home or at work, seal it up and take it to the yard, then add it to her made-up feed. An old lady approaching the finishing line who deserved something nice.

 

[paulineh]

I will add hot water to their feeds when the weather gets really cold. It really makes the feeds smell good.

Although they drink really cold water from the trough.

 

[katastrophykat]

I make up breakfast Fast Fibre at home before I go to the yard in the winter, with two kettles of boiling water. The house smells like bran flakes(!) but I prefer warm feeds, especially first thing in the morning- by the time I get to the yard and mix the rest, it's cool enough to be eaten.

Mind, this year there's a new BF in my house, and I'm not sure he'll cope with the wonderful morning smell!

 

[Annagain]

I have occasionally made sugar beet up with boiling water when I've forgotten to soak it overnight. Even after an hour soaking it's still quite warm so I've made warm feeds up because of that. My boy eats it as normal but my share horse won't touch it until it's cold!

 

[3OldPonies]

I'm another who 'warms up' the feed for my oldies in winter. They have Fast Fibre and soaked Baileys No 4 with hi-fi molasses free. I take a flask of boiling water from home or work and by the time the feeds are mixed in cold buckets it just at a nice temperature, not too hot but not cold either. I think it does help the oldies digest their feeds better in the winter and they do seem to appreciate it. Won't be starting this though until it does get cold, though we had the first grass frost this morning, so warm brekkies may not be too far off, but it's still warm enough in the evening not to need it yet.

 

[Kezzabell2]

I do as I use soaked feed which take ages when when water ice cold. They have it luke Warm. Not yet tho

 

[Pinkvboots]

I do when its freezing weather but not now its not cold enough, was walking about in a t shirt just now.

 

[xgemmax]

I have never heard of anyone feeding warm dinners to their horses, we must be mean down here

 

[spotty_pony]

I usually only add warm water when it's frosty/icy.

 

[noodle_]

mine dosent get food atm but when she does - no..... never have never will :]

 

[Mariposa]

We haven't started yet but when it gets much colder and frosty we'll probably start, we do most winters. One of ours has boiled barley over the winter as he drops condition and that is lovely and warm out of the Aga and he really loves it. I have to admit I think it makes me feel better to give them warm feed in the winter, not sure it actually makes a difference to them!

 

[3Beasties]

I feed warm feeds in the winter. Not every feed but as and when I can. I'm not sure it benefits them really but I love the smell :biggrin3:

 

[starryeyed]

Not yet, but when it gets colder I do treat them to warm feeds...!