My horse won’t lose weight

[Aoife 2020]

So have I been trying to get my horse to lose weight she gets no hard feed, small piles of haylage . She also only has light rug on since she is clipped and she also gets plenty of exercise 1 hour of fast work 6 days a week and the feld she is in has no grass . She lost loads of weight in the start of the winter she was the perfect weight but she seems to have gotten fat again. any suggestions

 

[meleeka]

Is she stabled?

 

[SpringArising]

Do you have any photos?

 

[eggs]

The grass has started growing where I am.

What do you class as fast work? Up the work - exercise her more often each week.

 

[twiggy2]

Photos would help a little.
What's the weather amd temperature been like as it's easy to look at a field that is growing and think nothing is happening and it's just because the horse is eating it as fast as it comes through.

 

[Shay]

If she is gaining weight she ahs more calories than exercise. Perhaps remove the haylage and repalce with soaked hay or a hay straw mix? What is it that you class as hard work if it is only 1 hour a day?

 

[Sail_away]

Soaked hay instead of haylage made a huge difference to my good-doer. The haylage was low calorie but even so, he gained weight/didn’t lose any on it. He gets a greater volume of hay now but is much slimmer because it’s soaked.

 

[Highflinger]

I have stopped giving mine any hay as grass is coming through rapidly. Grazing muzzle on soon. I honestly can see a difference in grass length from morning to afternoon it growing so well. Even small area of mud has green tinge to it. Mowed my lawn every week for last 4 weeks and needs doing again now and was last cut on Saturday.In South east on well drained sandy soil.

 

[PurBee]

Im envious...with all the rain sitting on the soil keeping it cool, all i see is brownish yellowish faint greenish tinge all over the fields here. Its been a wet march this year for us ....due a few days without rain so fingers crossed the grass starts growing!

 

[Aoife 2020]

Tks for the advice I will try the hay.

 

[SEL]

The grass is causing mine to balloon. The field is a bog so I can't build a track, but there is a bit fenced off so I can see how fast the grass is growing. Muzzle has been dusted off

 

[Coblover63]

I take it there's no chance she could be in foal?