How much do you spend on horse feed a month and what do you feed?

Not a lot at the moment!! Non of them are doing a great deal and are just on ad lib hayledge and a bit of chop and cheap course mix. They all look brill!! ;)
 
im being very lucky at the mo - ad lib hay £7 a bale, economy mix, sugar beet and chaff, about £10 a week for both - 1 retired 1 in full work. They are Arab and Anglo and pretty good doers (thank god!!!:D)
 
Healthy Hooves (£9.95 a bag , every 2-3 weeks), speedibeet (not very often bought) and haylage. Plus a vit/min tub once a month (£14).

I do know peeps who spend a lot, lot more, but then they don't have a gypsy cob ;)
 
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speedibeet - half bag a month £4.50
fast fibre 2 bags a month £17
copra meal 1 bag a month £16.55
linseed meal £8.00

£46 a month on feed and approx £40 a month on hay

(16hh ISH lives out)
 
I spend about £60 per minth on forage (ad lib for 2, some hay some haylage)

Feed I spend about £30 per month for the 2, Alfa A molasses free and speedibeet with a supplement
 
Very little. We have a welshie, a native x and a thoroughbred. I buy a bag of happy hoof and a bag of Alpha Oil approx every 10 weeks @ £25 for the two. Vit/min supplement costs £10 for about 2 months supply. TB has magnesium which is another £10 for 2 months. We have our own hay. So.. about £20 per month for the three. :)
 
I buy a bag of lite coarse mix and a bag of mollichop approx every 5 weeks for my two, approx £15 and they get through a big haylege bale in approx 9 days - £11.50 as home made. They are fatties and pretty easy cheap to keep!!
 
Very little.....now lol.

When my mare came to me, she was under weight, vet said conditioning mix, alfa a chaff, (3 x small feeds a day) as much hay as she would eat, grass was rubbish due to snow etc.

Vet came out few weeks back, mare is now in fab condition so said to switch to grass nuts 1/2 scoop and 1/2 scoop alfa a chaff, breakfast, and same for dinner, and hay is out in field and grass is good.

Old diet cost £28 for feed, and £45 hay per month.....

New diet cost £13 a month feed, and £20 a month hay per month.
 
monthly bag of beet shreds £6
4 bags pegasus cubes around £20
1 bag hi-fi £10.50
2 bags fast fibre forgot what that is so say about £15 a month
haylage £30 every 1.5-3weeks depending if its a round a sqaure bale so say £60 a month on the haylage at its worst.

thats for 3, 2 good doers and one poor doer so he gets most of it, im about to reduce to one feed a day as they are all nice and fat if not a bit too much so.

Pony just coming back into light work
 
I was spending a lot! I put a post on here about spending ridiculous amounts on my horse (most of that on feed) and people were like 'why'?

SO

I cut back big time and my horse has actually put on weight now he is not digesting such large feeds lol!

Haylage is the main spend. Its £60 for a gigantic bale which is lasting two horses approximatly 2 1/2 weeks at the moment. We have a lot of grass in the horses fields where we are so they are just having a medium sized haynet each at night and they are still leaving a bit.

Feed. My boy now has a scoop of HiFi, a mug and a half of balancer, oil, salt and carrots. The HiFi cost £8.95 a bag, the balancer £25 a bag but it lasts 6 weeks, the oil £3 and that lasts 2 weeks and salt 0.40p and that lasts forever :p

He also gets a couple handful of meadow nuts in his ball, a bag of meadow nuts cost £5.50, I brought it a month ago and iv'e barely made any impact on the bag.

Once the balancer runs out I will probably swap him to pink powder as its cheaper and has better probiotics in it (better for sensitive TB tums). If he starts to drop off which I doubt he will as our spring grass is going to hit us big time any day now, i'll add a scoop of the meadow nuts into his diet.

Next winter i'm definitly keeping him on haylage as he is so well on it and it has really cut the feed bill down. I will keep him on the hifi and pink powder but will probably change the cheap nuts to D&H pasture nuts as they have a bit more goodness in them and at £8 a bag won't break the bank :)

He's a TB so does drop off but if I keep him toasty and make sure he has lots of grass and haylage he actually holds his weight really well and it doesnt cost huge amounts to feed him :)
 
Very, very little! £150 a year on hay which will do him atleast all winter, then one bag of Alfa A which will last just under a year. He is a very good doer!
 
hay (£5 a bale use 1 bale per day),
fast fibre (£8 bag lasts a month),
vit/min supp (£50 6 months supply),
digestive supp (£35 2 months supply).
 
Captain-
Ad lib haylage (included in livery price)
Fibre G approx £10 one every 6 weeks.
Speedibeet - approx £10 every 8 weeks
Calm and Condition -£10 every 6 weeks.~(used to buy Blue Chip and Baileys. Looks better now than he ever has!)
Loads of succulents - approx £5 a week (Carrots, apples, swede, parsnips, sprouts etc)
Lick £10 a month.
It is supplements that cost me the money. Coligone every 2 months £45, Relax Me every 3 months £100.

Fany-
costs nothing except £10 every month for her lick. Just grazes and eats haylage. Very occasional carrot or parsnip.

Like some one else said I have really cut down my feed bills and Cappy is looking good on it. :)

FDC
 
we spend £70 ish a month on hard feed for 2 horses... speedibeet, alfa oil and baileys lo-cal, plus electrolytes (for Ron) and calmer (for Tom, when Ron's out), and cider vinegar for both.

Haylage we pay £4 a bale delivered, and we've booked 180 bales for this winter.
 
far too much lol!
25yr old and 12yr old eating roughly the same - Badminton conditioning nuggets, Alfa-A Oil, unmolassed sugar beet, TopSpec and small amount of Bailey's Outshine. Works out about £60 a month each.

9yr old only in very very light work as coming back from injury. He is a horse who can eat £120 of food a month when hunting but at the moment he's prob the cheapest on half rations TopSpec, handful of Hi-Fi, handful of Readigrass and a load of Badminton fibre nuggets in his treat ball. Guess he's prob about £30 a month.

Oh, and they all have 5kg of hay a night so going through a £40 round bale every 2weeks.
 
£25 a month on Hay
£18.75 a month on Alfa A MF (1.5 bags a month)
£12.00 a month on Lo Cal (half a bag)
£11.50 Build Up Mix (have just introduced this just to pick her up a bit following recommendation)
£11.45 Readigrass

£78.70 total! Blimey, didnt realise it was that much!!! Eeeek!!!!

I also feed Corn Oil and Cider Vinegar but they last forever!
 
MMM not sure I should add it up!

2 bags sugar beet £10
2 bags Chaff £12
2 bags Mix £12
1 bag grass nuts £7
3 bags Ready mash £39
8 bags pears £8
2 sacks of carrots £3
1 tub pink powder £20

Ok now i wish i hadnt!!!

Oh they have adlib hay too as much as can stuff into 2 nets each.
 
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16.1 Gelderlander in medium work

1 bag Suregrow lasts 6 weeks £13 = £8.66
1 bag Fast Fibre = £8
1 Bag Graze On lasts 2 months £9 = £4.50
1 bag micronised linseed lasts 4 months £23 = £5.75
2 bales of haylage per month = £46
2 bags of carrots = £3.50

£73.50

Plus a tub of treats every 3 months £6
 
Bag of molassed beet , lasts 8 weeks = £3.50 per month

2 x bags cheapie chaff = £7.00 per month

3 x bags cheapie hi fibre cubes = £15.00 per month

1 x bag Alfa a lasts 6 weeks = £6.00 month

1X bag performance cubes = £10.00 per month

I'm feeding 3, one TB x one NF x and one show cob type in hard work.

The beet and fibre cubes replace part of the hay ration for the first 2 and they have 2 slices of hay eash, the cob gets 3 sections of hay, they also have oat straw to pick at too. All look excellent on this diet and TBH I'll probably feed this way again next winter.
 
Last month I spent £80 on hard feed (and a few supplements) and £80 on haylage. The majority of that was for one horse :eek: :eek:
 
Approx 3/4 of a large round bale of hay @ £25 = £18.75
2 x small bales of haylage (just as a bit of variety as he's been chompin gon ad lib hay all winter and seems a bit fed up sometimes) £11.00
One bag chaff = £6.25
3 bags cubes = £16.50
2/3 bag of balancer = £14
2 large veg oil = £7
1 bag of alfabeet = £10.50

Total: £84.....ouch! That's for one TB in fairly light work atm. As we move towards summer obviously hay/haylage reduced greatly and alfabeet will last for a couple of months.

He does look exceptionally well on it and I have tweaked his diet a bit this year - used to spend more on conditioning cubes/pink powder/alfa a etc but have found that he looks better on the cheaper stuff but with a balancer.
 
We're lucky as our haylage is included in our livery charges from November through to April. Beyond that I have a bag of Top Chop Lite that I think cost me about £9 and will last him 6 months so that's about £1.50 pm! Carrots - £3 for one of those big bags of pony carrots which last several weeks depending on how many rot and go off. I have a good do-er which means he needs very little actual feed if any - chop is only used to mix in a breathing supplement. I have in the past bought Equibites - vitamin biscuits - and may get some again soon, just to ensure he's getting some as our grazing in winter is very very poor and the haylage of very variable quality.
 
I hate to think!!:D
Roughly - £650 for 24 bales of very nice haylage - delivered, we get through a bale a day for 9 horses, (although they don't eat very much in comparison, that does also feed 2 sheep, 2 goats, 4 red deer and 3 bunnies too!:D)
Then it's just vitamin licks which are £20 odd each and we get through 6 of those a month and some salt licks. Then there's the straw on top of that, then dog food for 7 dogs, and cat food for 18 of the little buggers, and 21 chickens *faints and falls on the floor!!* - eeeeek!!:D
 
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