how much are you having to feed atm

[Matt and Jack]

How much are you having to feed at the moment due to this awful mud? We are lucky ours are just on 3 wedges of hay at night because we have just been given the use of a 2.5 acre field full of grass so no hay in the day!! Hard feed wise double handful alpha a scoop h&p cubes scoop sugar beet and some stay power Museli if hes working

 

[Auslander]

Shed loads!

4 horses, two stabled at night. They are getting through 8 heston sections, plus two hard feeds per day (Copra and soaked grass nuts)

I have grass coming through, so hopefully the end is nigh!

 

[ihatework]

Hard feed virtually none, she is a fat fizzy type in reasonable work - 1 scoop of dengie healthy tummy split between 2 feeds.
A few hours on poor grass and then a very large haynet overnight.

 

[chestnut cob]

They get 5 full days out (ie, 8am to about 3pm) in a field with quite a bit of grass, though there can't be much goodness in it. On those days he gets 5 slices of hay at night. On shorter days (2 days they go out for about 1.5 hours) so he gets a couple of slices during the day then 4-5 overnight. He wastes it if I give any more, and ends up with half a full net left or drags it all around the front of stable, but still has piles of it. Presume he doesn't get so hungry when he's stood still.

Feed is maximum 1/3 scoop of Dengie Healthy Tummy with a bit of micronised linseed, evening only. In a fair amount of work (schooling 2-3x, hacking 1-2x, lungeing x2, maybe 1x jump). Can't give him any more feed without seriously upping the workload otherwise he's completely stupid.

 

[CobsGalore]

Good doer out on OK grass during the day, 2x scoops a day of hi-fi lite to add vits + supps, and then adlib hay at night. Usually about 8kg

 

[Matt and Jack]

Shed loads!

4 horses, two stabled at night. They are getting through 8 heston sections, plus two hard feeds per day (Copra and soaked grass nuts)

I have grass coming through, so hopefully the end is nigh!

Hmm rather you than me!!!

 

[Bosworth]

Mine is a TB, out all day from 5 till 5, he is on adlib hay only, and has been all winter. Looks fantastic. No hard feed and only a middle weight rug.

 

[Gracie21]

Not too much! 3 ponies-each plus one feed every 24hrs & one round bale is lasting 9 days. We have a bit of grass and they all seem to have kept their weight really well this year Despite the flooding we've had in the field they've really benefited from the warmer weather!

 

[Annagain]

Very little. Two big boys. One a good doer in light-moderate work and one not so good doer (weight never changes no matter time of year or how had he works) but in very light work. They're out in the day on grass that's ok but nothing special and in at night with about 15kgs of haylage (they always have some left in the morning) each. They have 1/2 stubbs scoop of cool mix, a scoop of hi-fi and enough sugar beet to dampen their tea (1 scoop of dry sugar beet last the two of them 3 days.)

 

[Nannon]

The TB who is in work is having adlib hay over night and when he's out in the day there's a big hay rack in the field. Having 2 hard feeds a day - sugarbeet, Alfa a oil, micronised linseed and oats - and he's still skinny!
3yr old tb and welsh pony have pretty much wintered out with no hard food and mum chucks some hay at them now and again, they both look pretty good!

 

[nikicb]

No bucket feed at all - but then I only feed a few handfuls of hifi nuts occasionally anyway if they are doing loads and need it. My three (11.2, 13.2 and 15.2) are out for around 8-10 hours a day at the moment on around about a third of my 2 acre field. I never feed hay/haylage in the field unless there is snow on the ground. And overnight they go through 1 bag/small bale of Gelston high fibre haylage between them (15.2 & 13.2 have around 2/5 each and 11.2 the remaining 1/5). I love having good doers.

 

[amandaco2]

Got 4, who get free access to hay all night in field and then 3 get about equiv of 3 slices when in during day, 1 gets adlib in stable so about 4 to 5 slices... so thats about 40 hay per week
hard feed is various quantities of barley, oats, linseed meal, alfa a oil, bran, grass nuts.

 

[Gazen]

Usually stabled at night although due to flooded fields she has spent a lot of time in lately. I feed her about a scoop and a half of alfalfa mix and half a scoop of soaked sugar beet in the morning and a barrow of hay if she is out during or two barrows of hay if she is in all day. Hay bill is astronomical!

 

[Shysmum]

My lad is already muzzled (!) during the day, has his lite balancer at night, with a soaked haynet. How bonkers is that ?

 

[Auslander]

Hmm rather you than me!!!

Only two are mine thankfully! The other two are retirement liveries, and their owners are fine with the increased winter feeding costs

 

[Nudibranch]

Shockingly little! One 16hh CB and one growing 16.2 WB, out 24/7 and getting nothing but token feed for minerals. Both still nicely covered, in fact I was hoping fatty CB might have been a bit slimmer by now. Admittedly I have been putting out a couple of kilos of haylege this last week but only because I cant believe the grass has any nutrients this time of year. I'm sure they really dont need it. Theyve been rugless during the day all week too.

 

[TandD]

Each currently getting 5/6 sections of hay (section is about 4/5inches from one of those small bales) per day, 3 overnight and 2/3 during the day. No waste.
Also get a feed of:morning, 1 round scoop of mollichaff, 1 small scoop of nuts
Evening, 1 round scoop of bran, 1 round scoop of mollichaff, 1 1/2 small scoops of nuts

Both not working as one due to injury and the other a small well deserved holiday! Lucky if we get 2/3 hours turnout a day...1 hour is more likely!