Pony feeding question

[MGG]

Darling Daughter (DD) has a little Welsh Section B. He is 13 lives in and has 6-7 hours turnout a day with hay overnight. He can be sharp and so doesn't need anything that will jazz him up. He is on Hi Fi lite at the mo and seems well and lively.

DD is riding him every day, hacking, schooling and jumping also pony club. Shows sometimes at weekends, but nothing too strenuous. Question is, is he getting enough? Should he have some kind of supplement? Was considering adding Baileys Lo Cal Balancer? Or should I go for a vitamin/mineral supplement like Dengies Natural Vitality Leisure Vits and Mins? Or is just fine as he is and I am just being too fussy. Too many choices - all very confusing.

If you can bear a part 2, they are off to PC Camp in August -very stressful (for me not her and it is still 2 months to go) and presumably he will need a bit more to keep him going as he will be working 4 hours a day. However don't want to turn him into a nutcase especially when I am not there! Ideas?

I am new - so hello.

 

[JAK]

Hello & welcome to the forum!

Re. feeding, I'm afraid we are frightfully dull & all ours exist on vast quantities of fibre in one form or another, i.e. grass, hay, Happy Hoof, fibre cubes & possibly a balancer!
We rarely feed supplemental vitamins or minerals of any kind, apart from providing salt licks!

(Told you we were dull! lol)

 

[sleepingdragon10]

Welcome MGG

Sounds like the little fella is getting everything he needs already. If he's bright and alert and well in himself I wouldn't change a thing. If you do decide to switch to a balancer, the Lo Cal would be ideal, and I can't see that you'd need the HiFi Lite ontop of that.

Do what I do, work out which option is more economical and go with that one

xx

 

[MagicMelon]

If he's doing well on what you're feeding then I wouldn't change it. I would feed an all round vit & min supplement as well though as Hi-Fi Lite doesn't have much in it. Or if you did want to change - then you could simply feed Lo-Cal on its own as long as at recommended doses so he's getting the right amount of vits etc. from it.