Show me your fatty paddock and how do my two look?

I too think blue needs more weight on and Chad well, he s not as fat as my cob, but still a bit fat and needs to lose some. I love this paddock paradise system! I have to try it with mine. I have a hugely fat cob and ID/cob 16.2 hh youngster. The youngster does 8-9 poohs a day on a fabulous grazing, and the fat cob 16 poohs on bare scrubland!!!! So I know who eats all the grass. Cant turn my fatty out on decent grazing ever as he hoovers the whole lot in 24 hours, the pig. Youngster has separation anxiety too if I put them in separate fields. If I put fat cob in starvation paddock he just digs up the roots and scoff them too and turns the place into a dust bowl, so dunno what to do about that!
 
OP- I wouldnt be keeping those 2 horses on the same diet/field. Blue could do with a touch more weight and Chad well could do with a fair amount less belly!!
 
Blue looks fine, Chad needs to lose weight.

I use the Track System.
The Track System is different to Paddock Paradise.
paddock pardise contains many different elements to amuse the horse and to naturally trim the hooves, such as areas of sand, stone, wood and water.
The Track system is purely a track on grass.
 
never knew the difference DM, good piece of info thank you. I felt guilty with mine yesterday and given them more grass than I used to, I think I will play it by ear with the track system. I have moved it in a fair bit today as it was starting to look pretty bare and I keep learning sciencey stuff from you guys about short and long grass. Its hard to know what to do for the best, bare-ish field giving little grass etc, a whole field, or (what I've decided to do or try!) use the track system but instead of keeping it very bare, move the fencing in more often so they get more fresh grass but its still limited.I hope this works, I am so confused!
 
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I would say you have too much grass for your cob and your grey could do with building up with extra feed. I have to steel my heart every year and put my three lami ponies on my half acre starvation paddock from April to the end of September (or later depending on the late flush of grass). They cost me more to feed in summer than in winter, they all have a generous helping of hi-fi lite and a scoop of pony nuts with half a scoop of magnesium once a day, dampened with just water. I can tell by the droppings if they are getting enough to keep their guts working and can alter the feed accordingly. I don't feed soaked hay or haylage in the summer and this regime has worked really well for the last five years. I've found it's not worth waiting to see if you've got a problem every Spring, I treat it as though I have a problem all year round.
 
In my opinion Blue needs more weight, remember this is a key growing time and she needs the goodness in the grass to do so.

Chad on the other hand needs to lose lots! Both are lovely though!
 
Blue needs more weight on him, he is too lean for his age, growing and his type - but looks a total sweety. Chad, well isn't he a typical cob?! Bit on the round side but I wouldn't say he needs to lose masses!
Interesting how we all manage our fields/horses weight. I find the hardest thing is keeping 2 (or more) horses' weight healthy when they demand completely different 'intakes''. Why is one always on the 'watch closely for fat' while the other is 'please eat more before they waste away'. Life.
 
Donkeymad said:
Blue looks fine, Chad needs to lose weight.

I use the Track System.
The Track System is different to Paddock Paradise.
paddock pardise contains many different elements to amuse the horse and to naturally trim the hooves, such as areas of sand, stone, wood and water.
The Track system is purely a track on grass.
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Being perdantic I know but that's just not true - the best Paddock Paradise's have a variety of surfaces as you say but a simple Paddock Paradise is just a track on grass... and it's what most people start with.

There are lots of examples here:

http://paddockparadise.wetpaint.com/page/Paddock+Paradise+Videos
 
The original Paddock Paradise was designed by a barefoot trimmer in the States. The idea took off and the track system followed and was also named Paddock Paradise, - falesly, it was,as you say,the starter system, but not a genine Paddock Paradise system. The name just stuck.
 
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