How much a month do you spend on feed?

[budley95]

Winter £30 a month on hay and £9 every 10 days on fast fibre. (He struggles to keep weight on) If he drops 20Kg from his "constant" weight he also gets calm and condition, £11.90 a bag for 2 weeks if I remember right? Even in little amounts he puts a lot of weight on from it, so I try to avoid having him on it long term - it's a pick me up should he need it!
Summer £9 every 40 days on fast fibre (out 24:7 and grass makes him balloon if I'm not careful!)
He's a 16.2hh ID x 14 yr old that now because of work and things mainly hacks and then schools with some jumping a couple of times a week, sometimes go out and do some clear rounds or local show jumping in the 3ft and some local working hunter classes. He doesn't do alot!

 

[windand rain]

Summer about £10 as they have a small feed of fibre and vitamins
Winter about £60 they have soaked grass nuts speedibeet and grass chaff and a very small amount of hay as it gives them the runs
A 13.2 highland her 14hh daughter a 12.2 dartmoor and a 14.2 connie all in good nick they do drop weight over winter but it is deliberate as it means they can graze all summer at little or no risk

 

[SpottyTB]

Well I've started saving already for my hay and straw.. I currently have enough for 6 round bales.. (3 hay and 3 straw).. That should last me most of the winter for a extremely good doing 15.1 and a 14.3 yearling..

They live in from 5/6pm to 7/8am.. And the grass is always good (22 acres for 5 horses).

Feed wise I go through a bag of suregrow every 5-6 weeks, a bag of chaff every 3 and a bag of beat every 3.. So I spend around £15 a month on two..

 

[nikkimariet]

Hard feed: £95
Supplements: £25
Hay: roughly £40 in summer and £80 in winter

It's not money I resent spending though, Fig works his socks off for me and looks great

could people please put hight and what work they do with horses on this thread for some reason my last horse was costing £90 a month for feed and £50hay she was competed once a week lesson once a week and and hacked out twice a week also she was 16hh

Fig is a 15hh TB, competing Elem BD, training Advanced.

He's a fussy poor doer, so takes quite a bit of food to keep him interested and keep the weight on!

Just had a quick neb at your FB page (and liked) ... Fig is gorgeous!

Thank you

 

[Foxy O]

I have 2 one 17.2hh ISH and 11.2hh section A. My big horse is old and not a great doer, so I was going through a sack of blue chip original a week between the two and a sack of readigrass a month, in winter and a bale of hay a day at £2.80

I have just started on a new food Allen and Page Calm and Complete far cheaper then blue chip at about £12.99 a bag this lasts about 10 days this has cut down my blue chip to about one bag every 3 weeks.

Plus garlic approx £5 per month and Biotin £16.65 every couple of months.

Now it's summer and I have loads of grass they are still on the hard feed but hay is about half a bale a week, only when they are in for a few hours.

Now I have written it down it is quite scarey how much I spend

 

[Foxy O]

Sorry forgot to say my ISH horse is in light work and ridden about 3 times a week and the section A is just a companion

 

[purplerain]

I really don't want to think about how much they cost me last year - we had I think 7 quarters of above average rainfall, and our fields were saturated. The grass was in danger of being taken over by pond weed, and just didn't grow at all. I was feeding hay almost constantly from Sept 2011 to Apr 2013, and "hard feed" (alfa oil, TS Lite balancer, Speedibeet, TS Conditioning Cubes - no cereals!) by the bucketful or so it seemed, just to stop them looking like rescue cases.

Now however we're going through a small bale of hay every week (5 ponies, all living out except one who is on the yard at night with a small net of soaked hay). They also get a small feed a day (alfa oil, TS Lite balancer, micronised linseed for 4 of them, TS Lite balancer with magnesium supplement for the fattie). We go through about 1 bag of alfa oil every 2 months, same for the balancer, and the micronised linseed seems to last forever.

Hoping this winter will be a lot cheaper as we have a surplus of grass - we currently have 5 acres not being grazed.