Please could you be knid enough to answer four questions :D

[DiablosGold]

1. Use a weigh tape.

2. By weight.

3. Less than it says on the bag.

4. No, feed ad-lib.

 

[bensababy]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?
Not at the moment no

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?
by the handful

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?
No - i have a laminitis sufferer/cushings so i feed what i know i should be feeding.. routine

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?
Hay - no

 

[Janah]

1 Yes

2 Scoop

3 No, would be overfed

4 Yes

 

[Flicker]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?

1 - No
2 - Scoop
3 - Yes
4 - Not anymore: I used to, but now I know what the right size / weight net looks like, so go by eye instead

 

[Cop-Pop]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

Roughly - I use a weigh tape so it isn't entirely accurate but both of them get weighed every couple of months

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

Scoop but they hardly get any at all anyways

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

No - they get less. Horse gets too hot with too much food and pony doesn't do enough to warrant the amount they put on there

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?

No - I used to many moons ago but now I just put it in a bag and weigh by hand

 

[pip6]

1. Yes

2. Cup

3. No definately not! Would be as fat as a show horse!

4. No, feed enough to last them with a little left.

 

[Doormouse]

Hi, I am just finishing a nutritional course and wondered if any of you would be kind enough to answer a few questions for me

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs? - no

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight? - per scoop

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag? - no, I judge by condition of horse

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage? - no, again I judge by condition of horse


Many many thanks in advance for everyone's help

Jeni

Hope that helps.

 

[Missmac]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs? Yes TB is 500 and NF is 470 (!!)

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight? I feed them both by scoop but I have weighed the scoops so I know how much they are getting.

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag? No

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage? no. The TB is ad lib but the NF has two small nets a day. I dont weigh this every day but I do when I open a new bale just to make sure in on track with the amount.

 

[Faro]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?
Yes (and 3 of the 4 are currently overweight)

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?
Scoop. (But only one of the 3 has hard feed - the one that's not overweight).

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?
No.

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?
No. When used it's always ad-lib.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?

He's 560kg
He's not fed except for a handful of readigrass to get supplements down him
N/a
Yes

 

[Ranyhyn]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

NO
2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?
DONT FEED

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?
IF I FED THEN YES I WOULD
4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?
NO

 

[sisco]

1) No
2) Scoop
3) No
4) No I fed ad lib so never weigh hay/haylage

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Yes via a weight tape 580kg
By scoop
No I feed less otherwise he stacks on weight
Yes I weigh his hay every day

 

[Equinimity]

1) Yes. Weightape them all regularly to keep an eye on weight gain/loss (although tapes aren't accurate)
2) By scoop (but a while back I weighed a scoop of everything I feed so I had an idea of what they were actually on)
3) No - I go on condition/workload.
4) No but I know the weight of an average slice so have a rough idea (although they share)

 

[Levade]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

Only a rough estimate!

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

Scoop

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

Well I judge by the recommended dose, but he is in between categories.

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?

No, he gets it ad lib and never eats it all.

 

[muffinino]

Weighs approx 445kg on a weight tape.
Fed by the handful at the moment as he's out 24/7 on good grass, so gets a little bit of chaff as a reward. In the winter for hunting or if he's going on a very long ride/competing, the feed gets weighed by the scoop.
I don't feed as per the bag as it always seems to be too much, so use my judgement on how he is looking/what he is doing that day/next day.
He is fed ad lib hay so it doesn't get weighed.

 

[madlady]

1. - No, I have a guestimate
2. - Scoop
3. - No, less
4. - No

 

[Bethie]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

Yes by weightape only - don't have access to anything more accurate than that

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

By scoop, having weighed how much a scoop holds, and its a small scoop not the round stubbs type (4 of my scoops to 1 stubbs scoop, also measured!) so easier to do full/half scoops accurately to how much I actually want to put in

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

Yes for 2 veterans, no for 2 middle aged fatties who get a token feed while the old ones are eating

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?

Not now as only there for occupation whilst they are in the stable/on yard and they are picking at it, in winter weigh every now and again to make sure my nets are being filled to the amount I'm intending to put in them - used to weigh every time until I could put a precise amount of kg in by feel alone

 

[suzi]

Hi, I am just finishing a nutritional course and wondered if any of you would be kind enough to answer a few questions for me

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

Roughly but not accurately.

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

Depends. If it give recommended weights on the bag I'll weigh it out and then say 'well that's about half a scoop' and work on scoops from then on.

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

No. I vary their food depending on their current work load so sometimes they will be getting less than recommended.

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?

Yes, all the time. I have one on a restricted diet and one who can be very fussy and just not eat. The fussy one's haylage is weighed in before he has it and then whatever is left is weighed so I know that he's eating enough. The others also have theirs weighed as I'll then know if they've ever had a bad night etc as I'll know how much they've left. I think it's also become a habit.


Many many thanks in advance for everyone's help

Jeni

Hope this helps.

 

[cyberhorse]

1. Estimated weight from a weigh tape

2. By scoop

3. At a livery yard so have never read a bag. Trying to keep weight for showing so carry as I am so long as his weight is stable.

4. No - I pack the net as full as possible and he only eats what he wants, this varies significantly on a day to day basis from nothing left to half a net left.

 

[Walrus]

Hi, I am just finishing a nutritional course and wondered if any of you would be kind enough to answer a few questions for me

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

No

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

By weight

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

Yes for his balancer, he just gets a handful of chaff as a bulker.

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?

Yes


Many many thanks in advance for everyone's help

Jeni

 

[avthechav]

Hi, I am just finishing a nutritional course and wondered if any of you would be kind enough to answer a few questions for me

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?


Many many thanks in advance for everyone's help

Jeni

1) No
2) Scoops, but I did once weigh out scoops
3) I feed less
4) definately no and I wouldnt have a clue how much hay weight wise she eats


ps I love the title of your post- I think that the Knids were the alien baddies the the Roald Dahl book, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator...I was scared of them!! hahaha

 

[C&C]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?
YES

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?
SCOOP

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?
NO, I GO BY HIS CONDITION

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?
NO

 

[laurabaker]

Hi, I am just finishing a nutritional course and wondered if any of you would be kind enough to answer a few questions for me

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?


Many many thanks in advance for everyone's help

Jeni

Yes I know how much he weighs, I feed by Scoop, I read the recommendations but go on how he is doing and no I dont weight my Hay I give Adlib.
Good luck!

 

[Clannad48]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?
Yep had her weighed - she weighs a lot less than I thought but vet says she is fine as she is - truly an example of being 'big boned'

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?
Mix by cupful, any more than that and she would be too fat, plus chaff by scoop

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?
No - less but checked with feed supplier and vet first

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?
No but it is double netted to stop her throwing it around the stable and trashing it

 

[Clannad48]

ps I love the title of your post- I think that the Knids were the alien baddies the the Roald Dahl book, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator...I was scared of them!! hahaha [/QUOTE]

Ah yes the Vermicious Knids

hee hee

 

[Three]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?
More or less from a combo of weight tape or vet visits but go by condition anyway.

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?
Scoop or part thereof

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?
Nope! I feed according to their needs as I see them

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?
No - but then I don't have fatties or laminitics. If I were dieting one of them or worried about health I would.

 

[JenHunt]

1) Do you know how much your horse weighs?
yes, tom is 590kg and ron is 635kg

2) Do you feed per scoop or by weight?
by scoop, but I know how much each scoop weighs

3) Do you feed the amount that it recommends on the bag?
I feed chaff, speedibeet and a balancer. I feed recommended amount of the balancer, but not sure about the other 2.

4) Do you weigh your hay / haylage?
no. it's fed ad lib.

 

[Pampered Ponies]

Firstly, good luck with your course. My answers below based on my 3 - who are all very different

1) I know the rough weight of all of them - not sure a weigh tape is v accurate but it gives you a relative reading vs the last one

2) I feed by scoop but base on the rough weight contained in it

3) No

4) No

Hope you let us all know how you got on

 

[samlovesprilly]

1) weighed about 525kg about 2 months ago and hopefully less now lol!

2) by scoop/handful

3) probably less of nuts and chaff but amount reccomended on lable for supplements

4) no