HollyWoozle
Well-Known Member
We currently have 2 horses and 2 ponies living out 24/7 but on relatively poor grazing. The ponies are retired/companions (1 shetty, 1 fine welsh type chappy who is approx 18 and cushingsy) and the horses are 16 - 16.2 and will be used for light hacking over the winter with maybe 1 lesson a week.
They are currently having some hay and one evening feed of Fast Fibre and chaff - shettie just has a token (I promise you he's not fat). The other pony needs more calories as he finds it harder to keep weight on and so he has speedibeet instead of FF.
I was thinking when it gets colder that adding some speedibeet for the horses too might be a good way to get a little higher calorie content into them, but then today I got a sample of Fibre Beet and wondered if I could just use this instead of speedi and FF in combination? Then perhaps just get a feed specifically for the older pony, such as A&P Veteran Vitality?
They will of course get plenty of hay throughout the winter as I prefer to stick to a forage diet rather than fill them with hard food.
If you could offer any advice about Fibre Beet or what might be good for the older chappy (or if I should stick to my original plans) then that would be really great. Thanks!
They are currently having some hay and one evening feed of Fast Fibre and chaff - shettie just has a token (I promise you he's not fat). The other pony needs more calories as he finds it harder to keep weight on and so he has speedibeet instead of FF.
I was thinking when it gets colder that adding some speedibeet for the horses too might be a good way to get a little higher calorie content into them, but then today I got a sample of Fibre Beet and wondered if I could just use this instead of speedi and FF in combination? Then perhaps just get a feed specifically for the older pony, such as A&P Veteran Vitality?
They will of course get plenty of hay throughout the winter as I prefer to stick to a forage diet rather than fill them with hard food.
If you could offer any advice about Fibre Beet or what might be good for the older chappy (or if I should stick to my original plans) then that would be really great. Thanks!