Is your horse naturally fat or thin?

[dieseldog]

The question is.....

 

[HBII]

On not liking the F word we much prefer Good Doer

 

[fairhill]

We prefer to call them chunky, or big boned

 

[Shilasdair]

Well, mine are 'voluptuous' with a lot of 'dormant top line' hanging below them waiting to become finely tuned muscle...if that's what you mean by the f word?
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[dieseldog]

I can't kid myself my horse is huge and enourmous and fat. I feed her nothing.

 

[ecrozier]

All our 3 big ones would live on virtually nothing! The two live out mares get some hay and half a scoop lucie-bix a day, mainly because they both need supplements (arthritis for one and tendon injury for the other) and I like to give them some balancer to put my mind at reat. Gelding has more because he is worked 5 days a week, but not much more and he certainly never looks thin!

 

[Stoxx]

I voted naturally skinny, as he does need a lot of feed and getting fat in the summer is not something I have to worry about! However I've had him a long time now so I know what he needs and at what time of the year so I don't have a problem with him loosing weight anymore.

 

[MrsMagoo]

Star ia naturally a 'good doer' hehe, really does live of thin air bless her...

 

[Quarrybank]

I have the 2 extremes

Q is naturally Fat & you have to watch what he eats

Whereas Spider always looks like I don't feed him when if fact he eats loads

He looks ok in the summer with loads of Dr green, but when he was ill this autumn, the weight dropped off him & I'm now trying to put it all back on again.

 

[pnap]

mine's has the hips of posh spice - i.e none! He eats more than a small african country to keep from looking like a neglect case.

 

[CastleMouse]

Ali is naturally a poor doer.

 

[jesterfaerie]

Fat!
He is just one big walking tub of lard on little legs bless him.
That pony could still put weight on if I sewed his lips together.

But when I bought him I also had another little welsh which was the complete opposite.

 

[KatB]

Goddy is a fatty when on grass! But is just right over winter, he is fed very little hard feed but lots of forage and looks perfect IMO

 

[Madam_max]

Corroy always looks like this no matter how much or little she is fed. I think she looks OK, but maybe I have rose tinted specs

 

[isabella]

mine has been on a diet all her life she lives on thin air and is built like a barrel all year round

 

[threeponies]

Mine is a belly with a face when viewed from the front

 

[rara007]

Pip keeps himself 'fit looking', all the rest good doers, except Bobbie who is poor, and Rory who keeps him self tip top!

 

[Super_Kat]

Well, you know about Olympic

Missy looks poor if she's kept in on little hard feed (and when she had cellulitis she looked like a greyhound, as she usually does when she's in pain, and it's damn hard to get the weight back on her). Storm is stupidly fat and Allie is just right

 

[Honeypots]

All natives that live on fresh air..tis hard work..electric fencing is my friend

 

[vickers22]

Thin skinny minny is mine!!!If he was a human he would be one of those people who can eat whatever they want and never out on ANY weght!!

 

[MagicMelon]

Mine all generally stay exactly the same weight - none of mine are ever allowed to get fat. 1 is on the slim side but that's just him!

 

[SpruceRI]

2 of mine are fat and one always thin. It's so difficult to manage as they all live out together.

 

[celia]

I have one fatty, one who's just right and one who looks great most of the year but needs a little extra in winter.

 

[arwenplusone]

My WB mare (middle in siggy) is actually a fattie!

She has one tiny feed a day and two nets of haylage (plus grass but nothing in that atm). Plus she's in hard work!

Suits me though as I'm tight.

 

[mrgoop]

Max is a skinny ribs
He has so much food, it takes him half an hour to eat his breakfast.

No matter what i do at this time of year, he doesn't look the best.
Roll on the spring grass. Maybe i can cut my enormous feed bill a little

 

[pottamus]

Well I have a Welshie so that pretty much speaks for itself...lives off nothing! I have a constant battle all year round to keep his weight off as much as possible but it is such hard work! He is strip grazed from March through to October with year old hay to eat and no hard feed. In the summer I ride him 5 or 6 times a week for hour plus hacks all in trot and up hills and then at the weekend I will do 15 mile plus pleasure rides also all in trot and canter. I get through shoes every 3 or 4 weeks in the summer! I really can't do any more and yet still, he can put weight on and be cresty...nightmare really!

 

[air78]

Thin thin thin thin thin thin thin!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My feed bill nearly bankrupts me, my friend nearly colapsed when I told her how much I feed

 

[Blizzard]

One of each, its WoNDERFUL!
In summer you can worry about one getting too fat, and in winter you can worry about the other one being too thin,oh joy!

 

[htobago]

Tobago just burns off everything we feed him. He is on non-heating, weight-gain feed plus ad lib hay, but when you turn him out he just gallops and gallops until he's drenched in sweat, then catches his breath and starts galloping again.

He's done this since he was a baby - no stress involved, he's perfectly happy, just loves to hoon around. Some people say I'm lucky to have a 'self-exercising' horse. Well, yes, he keeps himself very fit, but it's jolly hard to keep any weight on him. Oh, and during the stud season he loses even more weight cos it's all too exciting.

 

[JM07]

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I can't kid myself my horse is huge and enourmous and fat. I feed her nothing.

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i agree. she is!!!!