Is it enough?

[pip_dog]

I think I'm just worrying about nothing. But I wonder if my mare is getting enough. Or indeed the right feed. Obv it is now winter. So realistically. She is only ridden twice a week due to dark nights. So. Her diet is 2 feeds a day. Of half a scoop of alfa a molasses free and a cup of lo cal balancer. And half a scoop of speedi beet. Scoops being Stubbs ones. She also gets a net of haylage at night and turned out all day. Albeit poor grass I imagine by now. Nutritionally anyway. I feed the alfa a. Because this is what her old owner fed her. And also a mix. But I don't see the need really on bog all work! Do you think it's ok? She hasn't dropped any weight. And is fairly mad as it is. So don't think it heats her!

 

[Honey08]

My two are only on low cal balancer, hifi lite chaff and haylage. They are doing fine. If your mare is looking well, I wouldn't worry..

 

[pip_dog]

I wonder if its be cause of the alfa a. It's more calorific isn't it. Hence why I didn't feed mix

 

[dilbert_uk]

The safest method to check if she would eat more is to give more hay.

Some horses can be fed plenty of of hay, so called ad lididum (i.e. as much as they like) and others not because they never would stop eating.

Ours always had plenty of hay and now for example he eats only a half or a quarter of a large haynet from Shires every night. At the moment he's out roughly from 6 am to 7 pm on a large field of approximately 10 acres on its own (neighbours only over the fence) with plenty of grass.

I wouldn't try to find out eating habits with hard feed as this stuff might get eaten only because it is very tasty.