how much do you feed....

[spotty_pony]

Horse 1:15 hh Appaloosa x Cob
Activities: Hunting, hacking, Dressage, Show Jumping
Work Level: Moderate to Hard
Feed: Ad lib Good Quality Seed Hay
2 cups of Baileys Lo-Cal Balancer
1/2 scoop of Alfa A Lite Chaff
1 scoop of Cortaflex
Carrots/Apples

He is fully clipped and is currently wearing a HW Combo rug. He is very fit, and is currently at his ideal weight. He is a very good doer, and is prone to Laminitis so I have to watch his weight. He has plenty of energy without any hard feed!

Horse 2: 15.3 hh ISH
Activities: Hacking, Dressage, Show Jumping
Work Level: Light to Moderate
Feed: Ad lib Haylage
2 cups of Baileys Lo-Cal Balancer
Carrots/Apples

He has a blanket clip which has nearly grown out so on cold nights he is wearing a HW Combo rug and on milder nights he is wearing a LW standard neck rug. He is a good doer, who can get a bit excitable when turnout is limited. He is reasonably fit and is the correct weight at the moment for his type.

Horse 3: 11.2 hh Welsh Mountain pony
Activities: Companion/pet
Work Level: None as she is retired
Feed: 2 slices of meadow hay per day (1 in the morning and 1 in the evening)
1 cup of Baileys Lo-Cal Balancer
Carrots/Apples

She is unclipped and lives out 24/7. She is currently wearing a MW standard neck rug. There isn't much grass in our field at the moment so we are feeding her hay. She would lose weight easily if not fed correctly but with the above diet she looks very well.

 

[only_me]

Growing (sigh) 17h 5year old ISH.
Currently in light work (Schooling twice week, lunging once week and 3x hacking) & competing at low level comps atm.

Morning feed
-1/3 scoop chaff
-2/3 cool mix
-1/3 local mix we are changing onto
-Cup and half of outshine

He gets the same at night, with ad lib hay

 

[Always Blue]

Blue is a 16.2hh heavyweight ID x Gelding, fully clipped and in 24/7 at the mo, does go out depending on weather from 9am til 4pm some days on very little grazing...mud actually just to stretch legs mainly if not worked!
he gets adlib soaked hay/haylage when in....has got mild COPD so have to soak hay or give haylage.
he gets
2 scoops of alfa a mollasses free
600g of equilibra 500 balancer
2 scoops of baileys garlic
a glug of veg oil and carrots
daily - fed in 2 feeds - one in morning one in evening!!

 

[juliette]

15h 16year old cob, was fully clipped but nearly grown out as he was losing weight.....

Evening
1 x stubbs scoop speedibeet
1 x stubbs scoop alfa a oil
1/2 stubbs scoop Calm and Condition - increasing to 1 scoop just being introduced
1/2 stubbs scoop Horse and pony mix - gradually taking out feed as it heats him up
Garlic
Glucosamine
Handful of Aniseed, Comfrey and Marshmallow leaf
Carrots and apples as available

and a separate bucket with 2 stubbs scoops of Readigrass

Large haylage net

Morning

1/2 x stubbs scoop speedibeet
1/4 x stubbs scoop horse and pony mix
1/4 stubbs scoop calm and condition

shares an enormous haylage net with field companions

Heavy weight stable rug at night when in, medium weight rug with hood in field approx 9.30 am - 4pm on poor grazing - hence the field haylage

 

[JenHunt]

Ron is IDx, 16.2hh, 17yo, fit and hunting, good doer and excitable.
Tom is Hann x Welsh (don't ask)16hh, also 17yo, more or less roughed off but prone to getting cold.

they are turned out for more than 12hrs most days, except in the most horrendous of weather when they are given the option of coming and going as they please. Ron is fully clipped, Tom has a bib clip (he gets scabby between his front legs otherwise) and both wear Rambo Supreme Turnouts most of the winter.

both get the same, just in different proportions....
ad lib haylage (Ron eats about half a small bale per night, Tom eats slightly less)
Speedibeet (soak 2 scoops, and split almost evenly, Tom gets a little more than Ron)
AlfaA Oil (Ron gets 2 stubbs scoops, Tom gets 1)
Baileys stud balancer (Ron has 2 mugs, Tom has 1)
Cider vinegar (a slosh each)

Ron gets electrolytes before and after hunting, Tom gets a calmer before Ron goes hunting, and low dose of bute to help with bone spavin discomfort.

this all works out at £4 a day haylage and £40 a month feed, and £15 a year in electrolyte and £20 a year in calmer.

 

[SO1]

13.2 new forest living out very good doer in light work (hacking and some jumping). chaser clipped as gets very hairy and would be dripping in sweat when jumping or hacking in anything other than walk. HW rambo wug.

Feed once a day large handful of dengie good doer, handful of slim and healthy. (He is on a diet) He also has some hay when he comes up to the yard to be ridden or when traveling to shows, (about 2 slices a week).

No hay in field at the moment as there is enough grass as they are all good doers and looking well.

I guess I am lucky he is so cheap to feed but keeping the weight off him is not easy.

 

[Bozzy]

Both of mine live out 24/7.

16.2h 10yr old TB hunter clipped, rugs dependant on weather, light-med work, fed once per day..
1 scoop conditioning cubes
1 heaped scoop Alfa A oil
1 scoop sugar beet


14h 25yr old heinz 57, unclipped in mw rug, retired, fed once per day...
small handful hifi
tiny sprinkle of pony nuts
(a token feed!)

Adlib haylage fed twice per day and both are going on a diet soon as they've put on weight over winter, especially ponio who I may consider bringing out of retirement!

 

[frankie8]

14.3 14 yo Dales x
a medium size vitamin scoop of speedi beet (makes about a handfull soaked) split between two feeds
Vits and mins and some veg
9 kg of overnight soaked hay
She isn't rugged or clipped and is only doing about 20-25 mins walk work 5 days a week as she is coming back from injury. Also, she is box rested so no grass.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

5, ranging from 14.1 hh NFx to 16.3 hh IDx, aged 8 yrs to 29 yrs, one is clipped and rugged, all given the same - ad lib forage (haylage, barley straw), soaked grassnuts and dried grass in varying proportions with different supplements according to their needs. They are all turned out for 12 hrs per day.
We can easily adjust their diet according to weather/work and its all relatively inexpensive. IMO there is absolutely no need to feed a wide variety of feedstuffs - keep it simple!

ETA
I certainly wouldn't feed 2 different compound feeds, what's the point? And it is my understanding that feeding bran does more harm than good except in specific circumstances.

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I have a 16h1" Hann x TB & a 16h2" Hol x Selle Francais, both are jumpers. The amount they get fed depends on what they will be doing. If they are not going to be worked then they have very little. If they will be at a show or have some heavy work to do then they will be fed more. If you maintain the same amount of feed each day with a disregard for what the horse will actually be doing then it is a recipe for problems.

 

[noodle_]

warmblood x cob

out 5/6 + hours a day in winter

12 in summer

currently on 1/2 a scoop of feed store chop at night and 1./4 in the day - hanful of nuts and some pink powder...
thats all

and she looks ok (more heavier than underweight!)

 

[neeny5]

16hh, 18yo, Warmblood X, Mare
Fully Clipped, very heavyweight turnout
Out during day
In from around 3.30 at the mo
Worked most days, hacking/schooling/jumping/lunging etc

morning :
big cup of high fibre nuts
half round scoop of healthy hooves
carrot and a parsnip

evening :
big cup of high fibre nuts
half round scoop of healthy hooves
2 carrots
parsnip
apple
like 1/6 of a turnip
limestone flour

healthy horse

 

[immoralorchid]

bronte 14.2 dales pony - out of work due to injery but clipped and rugged
1/2 scoop hifi light
handful of conditioning cubes
cup of blue chip
splash of linseed oil
(in each feed)

mono 16hh ISH - hunting 1 day a week, hacks out for 3 hours 3 days a week, lunged for 30 mins in a bungie and then taken for 30min hack and schooled with jumping for 1 hour 2 days a week

1 scoop hifi light
1/4 scoop conditioning cubes
cup of blue chip
1/3 of a mug linseed oil
(in each feed)

they both have adlib good quality hayladge as much as they want whenever they want

 

[Damnation]

16.1hh 9 year old Warmblood mare. Medium type doer. Light/medium work. 450g rug
Oh and she is fully clipped including one leg (she wouldn't let me do the rest!!)
Breakfast - 1 round scoop of Hi Fi lite 1/3 scoop bran
Dinner - 1 round scoop Hi Fi lite, 1/3 scoop bran, 1 scoop of very sloppy speedibeet, 1 scoop garlic, 2 scoops seaweed and a about 2 teaspoons of Linseed oil.

If I give her any extras in the morning she won't eat her feed but she will eat it over night.. wierdo horse. Also with the wet weather she is in 24/7 but when its dry she is out from 9am to 4pm