Lets see your lean, fit cobs!

Mine this time last year:

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Ad lib haylage and grass pellets. Unlike my highlands who almost never see haylage in those quantities or hard feed!

eta, he wasn't very fit then, here's him the year before at the end of summer, and rather fit despite his age (18/19?)

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He's ridiculous - mane to his knees, forelock past his nose :eek: I did hack his tail short this winter though as it was so muddy and 'orrible!
 
Not exactly fit but this is my 13.3 welsh D recently-

and my 14.3 welsh D mare when being worked regularly-


I can't stand fat cobs. Both the girls need toning up but that takes time and more work that I cannot give both of them at the moment but I can keep their weights down :p The 14.3 put about 10 kilos back on after an enforced period of breaks due to all the snow we had, but its finally come back off according to the tape. Just need hill work and lunging in the training aid to tone that tum :) Someone actually saw that photo of her on here and told me she was too skinny :confused::confused: I wouldn't mind her being a bit less!
 
Any excuse to post a picture of my cob. Hope she's not too fat! She lives out 24/7 and gets a small scoop of alpha-a original mixed with a third of a scoop of cool mix, only one feed per day. She gets haylage in the field.
 
Izzy is fed half a scoop of Pure Working twice a day, in at night with haylage. Gets small feed bowl of readigrass every now and then - is getting it about four times a week atm, when I think he needs a treat.:D
He is worked quite hard 6 days a week and does trec, jumping, cross country, endurance, gymkhana and a bit of stressage. We have two lessons a week and lots of long hacks.



Just did our first competitive endurance ride and got a Grade 1. Vets said he doesn't often see cobs as fit as Izzy so was very pleased.
 
Not fit but reasonably lean - this is my girl just after she came back from Dick Vets so wasn't really eating and had been pretty ill so lost a lot of weight (definately need to - it was about the only good thing about her being ill)

Currently humongous but she does have a foal cooking inside her

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Please excuse my terrible leg position in these photos- I'm working on it!

This is my boy Albert. He's eventing on friday so we've been working on fitness. I have a before picture somewhere too but these are all afters:








We're getting there gradually!

Yikes huge pictures- I don't know how to shrink them sorry!!
 
Genie coming out of winter last year, definitely wouldn't have wanted her any leaner, but the second the grass came through she ballooned. (Shadow makes her hips look horrific but they weren't!)

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Genie in May last year - happy with her weight.

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(At peak fitness she weighs 540kg on a weighbridge, so looks can be deceiving!)
 
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Some lovely slim cobs on here that are nice to see, just how they should be!

Still a couple that I would like to see slightly slimmer though :o *runs*
 
3Beasties said:
Some lovely slim cobs on here that are nice to see, just how they should be!

Still a couple that I would like to see slightly slimmer though :o *runs*
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If you're including mine please tell me because I do struggle with weight with him :)

When I got him he was 590kg :eek: By last summer he was 550 (still :eek: ) and he's now 490, which I'm hoping is a good weight, but I'm always open to free advice :D
 
helenalbert said:
If you're including mine please tell me because I do struggle with weight with him :)

When I got him he was 590kg :eek: By last summer he was 550 (still :eek: ) and he's now 490, which I'm hoping is a good weight, but I'm always open to free advice :D
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No, I think yours looks good but its hard to see properly from the piccys :)

Well done on the weight loss :)
 
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No, I think yours looks good but its hard to see properly from the piccys :)

Well done on the weight loss :)
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Thanks :) It's been a bit of a learning curve! I just can't believe what a different horse he is after shedding the extra pounds. He just seems to find everything easier!

This is him a couple of months ago- he's lost more since this. You can easily feel his ribs but you can't see them (but I don't think you'd want to). His belly is more of a diagonal line now rather than a downwards curve, if you get what I mean!

 
3Beasties said:
Some lovely slim cobs on here that are nice to see, just how they should be!

Still a couple that I would like to see slightly slimmer though :o *runs*
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My cob is still on a diet and very limited grazing. We should be moving somewhere with a school soon, so I will be able to exercise her more.
 
helenalbert said:
Thanks :) It's been a bit of a learning curve! I just can't believe what a different horse he is after shedding the extra pounds. He just seems to find everything easier!
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That's what amazes me with people that have what they describe as 'lazy' cobs! Get the thing slimmer and fitter and I'm sure it would find a few more gears :o (can you tell I don't like fat cobs :o )

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This is him a couple of months ago- he's lost more since this. You can easily feel his ribs but you can't see them (but I don't think you'd want to). His belly is more of a diagonal line now rather than a downwards curve, if you get what I mean!

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He looks quite a bit slimmer in the jumping pics :)
 
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That's what amazes me with people that have what they describe as 'lazy' cobs! Get the thing slimmer and fitter and I'm sure it would find a few more gears :o (can you tell I don't like fat cobs :o )



He looks quite a bit slimmer in the jumping pics :)
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He's lost about 20kg since the standing still photo :)

His problem was never speed or laziness. It was more that his jumping was laboured and he lacked confidence. He'd have to do a mini bounce before a jump to build up to jumping, and then when he did jump he went straight up rather than forwards. The only thing that has changed since he did that is his weight. Don't get me wrong, he still does it sometimes, but he just seems more willing to go for it now, and I do think it's because he's lost his belly. Now for me to lose mine... :D
 
Gah - I want to post but have no pics of my new streamlined cob. He has gone from 570 kilos on the weight tape down to 449. Vet wants him to loose a further 20-30. Here he is when I went to try him in Oct - he was verrrry fat.

 
Magicmillbrook said:
Gah - I want to post but have no pics of my new streamlined cob. He has gone from 570 kilos on the weight tape down to 449. Vet wants him to loose a further 20-30. Here he is when I went to try him in Oct - he was verrrry fat.

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:eek: :eek: :eek: Wow, he didn't miss a meal did he?! :D

Would love to see piccys of him now, sounds like you've made a great start with him!
 
3Beasties said:
:eek: :eek: :eek: Wow, he didn't miss a meal did he?! :D

Would love to see piccys of him now, sounds like you've made a great start with him!
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Poor fellow. His old owner fell pregnant not long after she started him and he spent most of last summer on lush water meadow pretending to be a cow. He is getting much more forward going as he looses weight. The downside is that his made to measure saddle is now having its 3rd adjustment since Jan.

I never did a gratuitous 'meet my new horse' thread because I felt a little embarrassed for him. As soon as he has his first bath of the season I will do a 'fat boy slim' post.
 
Magicmillbrook said:
Poor fellow. His old owner fell pregnant not long after she started him and he spent most of last summer on lush water meadow pretending to be a cow. He is getting much more forward going as he looses weight. The downside is that his made to measure saddle is now having its 3rd adjustment since Jan.

I never did a gratuitous 'meet my new horse' thread because I felt a little embarrassed for him. As soon as he has his first bath of the season I will do a 'fat boy slim' post.
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Bless him lol! I'll look forward to the post :D
 
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