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your horses a day how many times do you give them hay and hard feed or grass. Me myself my boy gets hay net twice a day and a hard feed twice a dayalso has a lick. rant my friend only feed hay at night and we have no turnout so the poor boy is stood in his box all day with no food at all should i say something
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Horses are designed to be grazers, they eat slowly all day, their digestion is designed to continually have fibre passing along, so standing without hay all day probably isn't doing your friends horse that much good.
 
That's awful and no good for him at all
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My horses go out all day (no hay but there is a bit of grass) and have a massive haynet at night so they have some left in the morning.

Does she not feed because she doesn't go to the yard in the mornings? Could you offer to chuck some hay in for her?
 
Ours have 2 hours turnout at the moment.

Bob gets 2 folds of hay a day ad lib haylage, 2 folds of hay night, a scoop of blue chip. and a scoop of cool mix.
Pip gets 2 folds of hay a night, aand 2 a day and 2 scoops of cool mix.
Rory and Richard get 2 folds a day, and 2 a night, and 1 scoop of cool mix.
Brook, Ginga and Fred get 2 folds a day and 2 a night.
Teddy and Ajay have 24 hours turnout

All the ones in get about 30 mins exercise a day...
 
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we have no turnout so the poor boy is stood in his box all day with no food at all should i say something

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Are bannanas yellow????
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yes horses should have hay available all the time.... may be worth saying something .. like "i was reading how much hay a horse is meant to have a day and i don't feed near enough and make out you give 2 hay nets but need to put more in .... just an idea as this saves people getting arsey ............
i always do things like this so it kind of gives the person the answer with out seeming like your inter fearing !!!!!
or just pop some hay over the door although thats probally not a good idea i always make sure my guys that are in have ad lib hay and water !
put her in a room with no food all day ... silly cow
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No hard feed as mine are fatties, though they get a handful of supplement in the evening.
3/4 sections of hay at night, which probably lasts till the early hours, so they spend most of the night finding spare bits of hay in their beds.
A section in the field in the morning and then they have to hunt for grass for the rest of the day.
Your friend should be feeding hay 2 or 3 times at least in a 24 hr period for a horse in it's box.
 
They always say your know your horse is getting enough if hay is left in the net next morning.....this poor horse is a trickle feeder and will end up with colic related and stomach problems.....if it was me I would have wrapped a hay net round her neck and pulled tight,while yelling give the animal something to eat!
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They always say your know your horse is getting enough if hay is left in the net next morning.....this poor horse is a trickle feeder and will end up with colic related and stomach problems.....if it was me I would have wrapped a hay net round her neck and pulled tight,while yelling give the animal something to eat!
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My horse has a constant supply of either haylage or grass depending if he is in or out, at the moment he is in due to the state of the fields. Personally I think that is how it should be as horses digestive systems are designed to eat almost all day. He is given hard feed twice a day, but if I am at the yard all day, at weekends for instance I will split it into 3 feeds, but this is impossible in the week as I work.

If the horse is a good doer I still think a pretty constant supply of forgae should be fed, but perhaps limiting the amount by putting a few nets inside on another or soaking it. Hard feed should be split into as many smaller feeds as possible throughout the day.
 
Yes say something, poor horse! Must be starving! Mine are out all day even in mid winter and so eat grass all day, but have breakfast and dinner and also a big haynet at night.
 
i was bringing mine in the other night at 6.30 and noticed that many of the other horses had already eaten up all their hay allowance for the night, two in particular would have been in since about 4pm and would be next visited at 10 ish the next morning.
thats a long time without food. no wonder horses get ulcers!
 
My boy eats constantly because he always has something available! He is out during day on decent amounts of grass and in at night where he has adlib hay...there is always some left in the morning. Other than that he has two handfuls of Dengie to put his supplement in and no hard feed as he is a native.
 
mine is in at the moment so has as much haylage as she can eat, If yo sees mine without some is thrown over and the same with theirs, this morning i was sorting mine out and hers were shouting so i just hayed round, stabled horses need to be hayed or something at all times.

If she can't be bothered to hay then i would chuck some in its only fair poor horsey....or ask why she doesn't hay, really question her.
 
Of course the horse needs more hay so yes, somebody should be saying something. If you can't trust yourself to do so without giving offence then maybe ask somebody that your friend respects to give them some advice.
 
Yes I would say something.

My girl is on limited turnout at the moment because of mud rash. So at the moment she has a haynet in the morning, out for a couple of hours, a haynet when she comes in and one for nighttime.

If she's on full turnout, she has 2 hard feeds a day. With her being in, they are split into 3.
 
We had a girl on our yard like that - the other liveries used to help themselves to her hay and throw it over her horse's door, in the end she started to put a hay net in because she was loosing so much hay due to 5 or 6 liveries doing it so the horse was actually getting too much, try it see if it works!!
 
You really need to say something, he's at risk of various digestive tract related problems, such as colic or gastric ulcers.

My horses are out 24/7 on poor grazing (low nutritional value) then fed twice a day. The ones that are 'good doers' have Hay replacer type chaff, the youngster gets his recommended amount of Suregrow as well. They then get a haynet each, containing the equivalent of about 2-3 regular slices of hay.

My TB veteran gets senior conditioning mix, oil and senior chaff...and a giant haynet (about 5-6 slices) which, in good weather, isn't finished.
 
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We had a girl on our yard like that - the other liveries used to help themselves to her hay and throw it over her horse's door, in the end she started to put a hay net in because she was loosing so much hay due to 5 or 6 liveries doing it so the horse was actually getting too much, try it see if it works!!

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NEVER feed someone else's horse!!!
This case seems to be nothing more than penny pinching and ignorance, however, there are many situations where horses aren't fed for a reason. Interference can do more harm than good.

Too many people take it upon themselves to be the horses 'savior', I've seen cases where a horse almost died at the hands of these people...greedy horses recovering from choke, told to have soft wet feed to allow the oesophagus chance to recover, given dry hay...end up choking again, with no one on hand to monitor it.

If you're genuinely concerned for a horse, deal with the owner.
 
Agree. However they should have a constant regular supply of feed. Mine has 2-3 sections of hay and half a big bale section of hayledge over night, and then 3/4 of a large bale slice of hayledge in the field with him all day. he also gets one feed of 2x scoops of hifi, plus TS and endurance mix. If they want to reduce the amount they are eating, put ina small holed haynet so a small amount takes 3x as long to eat. Least then the horse has constant access to something to chew, even if it only small amounts.
 
George has 2hrs turnout a day at the moment and then adlib hay all the time he is in (and I mean adlib!), he then has a feed am and pm of hi-fi and balancer and then his ball in the evening with some pony nuts in for entertainment!
 
my horse is usually t/out but due to mud fever now and then spends a couple of weeks in - in this case she gets
breakfast
small holed haynet after muck out
lunch which is usually some readi grass
tea about 5
another haynet of a night and snack ball.

she seems pretty happy with that lot when shes in and will pick and chose what she wants to eat. she is also on straw so she sometimes picks at that.
 
Mine get adlib haylege, even Lance who is prone to being a fatty.

It is not good for your friends horse to be getting nothing all day, even if he is a fatty he should still be getting hay regularly, my friends laminitic pony used to get 1 slice of hay 3 times a day, morning, lunch time and night.
 
I know someone who thought she was Mrs Wonderful. She bought an Arab X to start endurance riding. She thought this horse was overweight so stabled him 24/7 with just two hard feeds a day. She wouldn't be told
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