How much hay does your horse have overnight?

My lot are in from 4.30pm until 8.30 am, the two boys (natives 14.2 -15.2) have 1 x scoop dried grass, 1 x scoop Hifi lite, 1/2 scoop H&P nuts and 365 supplement, they have that when they come in then I go down at 8.30pm and give them 12lbs hay. Grass in paddocks is non existent at the mo but they are both fat as butter.
 
How long are they in? Varies 11-14hours
How good / bad is your grazing right now? Opened field up which was cut for silage so stubble. Edible but not much.
Are they under / over weight? Usually overweight
Good / poor doer? Good doer unless very cold temperatures which he drops weight.
Size / breed? 14hh welsh c / coloured cob

Varies due to circumstances but usually 4.5kg of hay overnight. A bucket in the morning of 1kg / 1.5kg. :)
 
Some grass for picking at but a lot of mud.

In for 10 hours at night.

5 kg haylage double netted night and morning. Fibre bucket feed night and morning.

ISH 16.1 hh maintaining ideal weight on this regime.
 
16.1 tb mare .. currently looking OK but could be slightly rounded she is in all the time at the mo due to mud fever but Normally in an all weather turn out pen during the winter from 6am til 1pm with two wheelbarrows of haylage then a trawler net which holds 17kg of haylage and a normal net full not sure on the weight of that. By the morning there's normally 1/4 of the trawler net left. She also has 2 feeds a day am and pm consisting of... Sugarbeet, fibrebeet, buildup cubes, oats, barley, chaff and mirconised linseed. She is not really a good doer
 
Interesting reading guys, thank you :)

Pone in question is currently getting 7kg of hay overnight, split between two haynets. One elim-a-net, one double netted. It's always gone of a morning, and he's usually hungry. I turn him out, he stands at the gate. This is a horse who lived out 24/7 last year with no issues.

I'm torn over whether to up the hay a little, or maybe triple net / miser net?
 
ShadowFlame said:
Interesting reading guys, thank you :)

Pone in question is currently getting 7kg of hay overnight, split between two haynets. One elim-a-net, one double netted. It's always gone of a morning, and he's usually hungry. I turn him out, he stands at the gate. This is a horse who lived out 24/7 last year with no issues.

I'm torn over whether to up the hay a little, or maybe triple net / miser net?
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Trickle nets.....they are expensive but DO last!
 
16.1 18yr old Warmblood gelding - On good grazing and he is quite rotund. This time of year he is in from approx 4.30pm to 8.30am - fed 4kg (dry weight) of soaked hay per night in a small holed haynet. He sometimes gets an extra kilo if in early or at weekends a kilo in the morning prior to riding.

He has 1 stubbs scoop of hi-fi lite and 1/3 scoop hi-fibre cubes morning and evening in which he has his joint and calming etc. supplements
 
ShadowFlame said:
Out of interest?

How long are they in?
How good / bad is your grazing right now?
Are they under / over weight?
Good / poor doer?
Size / breed?
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Mine comes in about 5pm and gets 6lbs of soaked hay and a small feed of fast fibre plus supplements.

At 10pm I do a full muckout and give him another 6lbs of soaked hay.

At 7am he gets 3lbs of soaked hay and then another 3lbs after I've ridden, turnout at 11am.

So that's 18lbs (8kg) plus 6hrs on good grass.

Connemara pony, good doer, currently weighs 450kg.
 
Seven horses here. They have an average of 16 kilos of haylge each per day. There is no grass turnout in winter, just sand turnout with haylage. Four of the horses have adlib haylage, the other three have theirs measured at 2% of their weight and divided into five haynets a day. They do run out part way through the night even though they have trickle nets, but they cannot have adlib due to issues with laminitis and weight.
 
No grass at all. Mine come in at 4-4.30pm and go out at 7.30-8am, I have a 13.3 7yo welsh D who has 2 slices per night, a 15.2 10yo warmblood/welsh/tb cross who has 3 slices per night and a 15.3 28yo tb who has 4 slices per night!
 
Ad-lib haylage.
How long are they in? A lot
How good / bad is your grazing right now? Beyond awful. No grass.
Are they under / over weight? Neither, just right.
Good / poor doer? Good
Size / breed? Cob
 
Grazing for four is poor!!

They have hay in field when/ if they go out. They have huge nets which are never left to get empty, they probably eat about 3/4 bale each per day (cry)
Two poor doers, one gOod doer and one just out of training so still looks like a racehorse but would say he would be a good doer.
All tbs.

Irish horse at another yard currently out 24/7 will leave anything more than one slice of hay a day (yay) but more is put out just in case.

They all get 2 x big hi fibre feeds a day also.
 
ShadowFlame said:
Out of interest?

How long are they in?
How good / bad is your grazing right now?
Are they under / over weight?
Good / poor doer?
Size / breed?

Also interested to hear how much would you be giving a 14.3hh overweight (but chaser clipped and unrugged) cob, who's in for 12-14hrs per day, but there's little left in the fields and no hay fed in fields?

Thanks :)
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In from 7am to 7pm, give or take (6kgs of hay in a net)
Grazing is wet and muddy, grass is there but don't think there is much in it! Haying mine during the day (4kgs on ground)
Weight wise, pretty much spot on, not too thin not too fat (well I think he's about right!)
Very good doer but finding he needs a bit more food now he's a bit older (just turned 18)
15.1hh heavyweight cob
 
Mine is a 16 yo welsh very very very good doer.

ATM she is out from 8am - 4.30 pm and spends all weekend out. She is fully clipped but well rugged.
Her grazing is good and field is still looking very green.
She gets 2kg when she comes in and 2kg at around 7 pm and then another 2kg at 6am.
She gets a token amount of hard feed which is a small handful of chaff and some pony nuts.

Hope that helps
 
Very little if any grass in the paddock at the moment. All 3 in at night - jazz to a stable of his own to munch through 11kg of hay and the 2 ponies share 6 kg. they come in between 4 and 5.30pm sometime and are let out around 7.30am. They have morning nets then as well - both of 6kg (jazz one to himself and the ponies share).

Jazz is slightly underweight at the moment so is on scoop of chaff, scoop of calm and condition and his biotin morning and evening.

Ponies weight is spot on. Finally!!
 
ShadowFlame said:
Out of interest?

How long are they in?
How good / bad is your grazing right now?
Are they under / over weight?
Good / poor doer?
Size / breed?

Also interested to hear how much would you be giving a 14.3hh overweight (but chaser clipped and unrugged) cob, who's in for 12-14hrs per day, but there's little left in the fields and no hay fed in fields?

Thanks :)
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Not sure what the hay weighs up to, but i always have a large square bale, and she has just over half of one slice per night.

She is in from 3.30pm - 8am

Grazing is quite bad, do have grass, but is very short and there's not much

personally i'd say she's at the perfect weight now, coat is quite thick too so will look slightly bigger than she is

I'd say quite a good doer

approx 14hh and Native x TB
 
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