SECTION D/COB/NATIVE BREED OWNERS... what do you feed?

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What do you feed and why?

Being as Natives/cobs/sec d types are prone to living off fresh air and i find alot of these types seem to be muzzled and have lammi worries (or the owners are very preventative)

what do you feed and why?
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Ours have a small hard feed am of Beet Pulp and Light Mix with garlic, salt and oil. They are turned out during the day and have hay morning and night.
 
I've got 2 Welsh D's. One a lightweight version and the other a chunkier filly.

My lightweight who's in Medium work is out at grass all day, mostly unrestricted on a couple of acres though on the odd night she comes in on half an acre of well grazed paddock, for a de-bloat!

Feed wise she's just on a tiny slop of SpeediBeet, handful of chaff and some competition pencils, just so she gets something to chuck the Cortaflex in with. She's looking about the right weight.

The filly is on the same grazing as Rosie, but no hard feed at this time of the year. She looks about right too I think.

Come winter, Rosie's in light work or nothing, and is fed as much as I can get down her as she loses weight until she looks like a whippet!

Filly will get a handful of this and that, plus hay.

My Shetland on the other hand is on very restricted grazing and hay at this time of the year!!
 
Handful of alfa stalks and vit/min supplement. Restricted grazing at night and 5lbs of hay when in during the day. Why?? because she lives off thin air!!!
 
Limited grazing, exercise daily and a tiny small feed of hifi good doer and a couple of pony nuts with herbal weight loss supplement.
 
My section D is on restricted grazing, 24/7 but short grass paddock with very little in it. He was on scruby grass but with the rain we've had recently the vet suggested he move to the diet paddock
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when he was on protein rich grass last year he was muzzled in a green guard one 24/7
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He lived off fresh air in the winter and has a token feed of chaff and herbal mix after work/nightly if needed
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Nothing!! I had him in during the day on soaked hay with access to a mineral/salt lick. His loaners still have him on Topspec calmer so he gets something like Dengie Good Doer (a handful) to have that in with them.

They live on fresh air usually!
 
Merlin is on a small paddock with a covering of short grass 24/7 and one feed a day of dengie chaff with some garlic and his joint suppliments in
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He is a good weight but could be a porker if left to his own devices in the rest of the field!!!
 
My boys are out 24/7
Bear my Cob has 1 scoop hi fi orig and 1 scoop of herbal mix a day. He is worked so I feed him!
Welsh A has 1/2 scoop of Hi Fi, 1/4 herbal mix, he needs his glucosamine.
Yearling cob x has 1 scoop hi fi and 1/2 herbal mix as he's a growing boy!

I have always fed all year round. I like to know they are getting a bit extra, not just grass.
 
My Section D x is an old boy and has Cushings. He has always been a fussy eater, which was not an issue when for 14 years he was worked regularly and out in acres of lovely grass. Now he is on very restricted grass and I try and get him to eat as much hay, High Fibre Nuts, Alpha A Oil, Corn Oil and other supplements as I can .... but alas I throw most of the hay away as he will not be bothered to eat it ..... mind you if I let him have unlimited grass and carrots he would be a very happy chappie indeed
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in the summer welsh d has 2 mugs allen and page fast fibre, mug bailey's lo-cal and a scoop of good doer, is out 24/7 on restricted grazing, the little fat cob has 1 scoop good doer 2 mugs lo-cal 24/7 sparse grazing, 3yo filly has 2 mugs fast fibre, mug of lo-cal scoop good doer and is on good grazing

winter. D has alfa a oil in place of good doer, topline cubes if very cold and add-lib hay out 24/7
cob scoop good doer, 2 mugs lo-cal 8kgs approx hay
sec c 3yo alfa a oil, fast fibre and lo-cal

winter
 
hand full of hi fi light
and vits
only feed it for her to get her vits
dont feed her anymore then that because she a good doer
 
All my horses, Welsh and big lad are fed on Baileys low cal and dengie hifi light, which seems to keep them just right
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My traditional cob (you know what he's like
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) is out 24/7 in large fields and has nothing in the summer except for a couple of handfuls of cherry chaff, a scoop of garlic and an apple after work (so he thinks he's had something), maybe a handful of Bailey's Topline and a bit of salt too if he's worked hard. If I don't ride he has an apple and a couple of treats when I check him over. He's ridden 5-6 times a week and I feed according to work done.
In the winter he gets a scoop of chaff, half a scoop of B's T.line, a handful of black sunflower seeds, a scoop of garlic and a couple of carrots twice a day, plus 6-8 slices of hay a night with a couple of carrots in the hay. He's usually ridden 4 times a week on this. He's not as easy as you'd think to keep weight on, I'd rather he had forage to keep him occupied and am contemplating going back to using sugar beet on top of his other feed this winter, which I used durig winter 2006/7.
 
We don't have much grass so ponio gets 1/2 scoop dengie original, 1 handful pony nuts plus garlic and vits and adlib haylage
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My Sec D lives off grass and hay. He has a couple of handfuls of chaff to put a supplement into once a day and that is all.
He is out 24/7 but this is limited to a half of an acre from April to October , when he can pick at the short grass and has ad lib hay. In the winter he gradually has access to the rest of his two acres and eats mainly grass throughout.
I personally would not muzzle my lad as it would cause him too much stress, so the routine I have works for him and keeps his weight down as best as possible with plenty of hacking out too. I think the key is the exercise with my lad, he needs plenty of it up and down hills and loads of trottting to keep him fit and active.
 
I have a dalesx and he's comes in, in the morning and goes out at night on restricted grass. He also gets 3/4 scoop of spillers happy hoof, 1/2 scoop of pasture nuts, corn oil, salt and about 7lbs of hay.
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QR - retired aged Section D is on "volunteer" grass and needs restricting further as he did rather too well over the winter when he was out on unlimited grass.

Section A was in over this winter thanks to a loaner who decided to clip her out - and then return her. Keeping her slim and providing enough food to keep her happy was tough so she got a handful of chaff when everyone else was fed and just enough hay to keep her going - which was a pain as I had to put her another handful of hay in very late at night as she'd already finished her evening hay and would be waiting too long for breakfast.

She's now out on the scrub with the Sec D and is blooming, we got her to come out of winter a bit poor and she's now about where I like her so I'll be cutting the amount of land they have down by about two thirds.
 
Summer: Lady who is a Welsh B x Arab (whose had laminitis) Muzzled when turned out, slice of well soaked hay during the day, access to a vitamin and mineral lick and a handful of HappyHoof when the others are fed.

Fudge, a 14.3hh unregistered Welsh cob. Muzzled when turned out, one large section of hay during the day and Baileys Lo-cal.


Winter: Lady. Two sections of hay during the day, out at night. A large scoop of HappyHoof and access to a vitamin and mineral lick.

Fudge. Four sections of hay during the day, out at night, Baileys Lo-cal and either a large scoop of HappyHoof and a scoop of Speedibeet or a small scoop of Allen & Page Slim and Healthy and a small scoop of HappyHoof


Both have around a tablespoon of salt in their feed all year round.
 
I would feed Amy according to what work she was doing, and the time of year.

So essentially spring and part of the summer she'd get no hard feed at all. But I would start to introduce hard feed during the summer as she started to do more work (fun rides, long hacks, school work etc). Usually I would feed her oats or conditioning mix (conditioning mix because it was like rocket fuel and would really pep her up). During the autumn and winter months she would usually be on competition mix and pony nuts. With the amounts increased and decreased according to work (hunting).
 
All of ours are just on Grass (A shetty, section A, 5 section B's, and 2 welsh PB's). They are competeing at driving trials ATM, with a 2 day event incuding a 15KM marathon with obstacles each weekend. We don't feed them any more because they are all either slim but with too much energy or porky, but you can only see Bob, Rory and Pip's last ribs. In the winter one section B goes onto 2 scoop of conditioning mix and 2 scoops of blue chip a day, and others get one scoop of each a day. Last year we thought we would get away with out feeding and doing a one day event a month but they lost condition.
 
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hand full of hi fi light
and vits
only feed it for her to get her vits
dont feed her anymore then that because she a good doer

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Ditto
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Spring - Muzzled 24/7, no additional feed.
Summer - A well eaten back grass paddock. No additional feed.
Autumn - Grass supplemented with hay if necessary, a small feed once per day of rolled oats and oil-coated chaff.
Winter - A morning and evening feed of rolled oats and oil-coated chaff, with the weight of oats dependant on workload, weather and general condition.

That's for a 14.2hh 8yo Welsh D in regular hard work (hacking 5 days pw in summer, hunting and hacking in winter).
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