UK horse owner nutritional knowledge

Think it said something similar to me re invalid format but just seemed was if I hadn't answered correctly - ie some questions required more than one answer.
 
YorksG said:
It tells me that my comment is in an invalid format, doesn't tell me which comment. I have tried twice and will not try again. I always try and fill out student surveys, but get absolutely sick and tired of wasting my time with those which do not allow completion.
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^^This^^. I often try to fill out these surveys for students but it's rare to find one that works.

Sorry, OP.
 
The invalid format on mine seemed to apply to my county, so I just put region, which it accepted :)

Agree about the water - the option I wanted wasn't there so I chose the next nearest, which was lower than I would have liked. Some of the other answers were similar. I put the Calcium: Phosphorus ratio I used after getting the mineral content forage analysed during the summer :)
 
I completed it too. I think your questions maybe needed to be a bit more specific, as it is, its a little too general, though this may be what is required in your course. The 'correct' answer is changing all the time, and what we were advised several years ago may not be quite correct today, so I felt some of your ranges were a bit narrow. Some questions e.g Ca:P ratio may be better known by people who live in different areas e.g the US where alfalfa hay is popular (and directly relevant to this issue)
 
agree with this

At the moment my horse is in light work as we do hacking,schooling, jumping (up to around 1m), riding club shows/lessons when they are on and she can be ridden 4-5 days a week some times then maybe only twice the next.........then I see others who get on for a snail paced hack for about 30 min once in a blue moon & they are in the same category as mine. It would be nice to have clearer instructions and specifications regarding levels of work (maybe the same way that insurance companies provide classifications eg group A- racing, 3 day eventing etc)

Good survey though, I hope you have plenty of responses. Im sure you will as I generated one in a similar fashion for my dissertation and ended up with over 300 responses to anylise.........hard work but gives your results more clout!

Best of luck with your studies :)
 
el_Snowflakes said:
agree with this

At the moment my horse is in light work as we do hacking,schooling, jumping (up to around 1m), riding club shows/lessons when they are on and she can be ridden 4-5 days a week some times then maybe only twice the next.........then I see others who get on for a snail paced hack for about 30 min once in a blue moon & they are in the same category as mine. It would be nice to have clearer instructions and specifications regarding levels of work (maybe the same way that insurance companies provide classifications eg group A- racing, 3 day eventing etc)

Good survey though, I hope you have plenty of responses. Im sure you will as I generated one in a similar fashion for my dissertation and ended up with over 300 responses to anylise.........hard work but gives your results more clout!

Best of luck with your studies :)
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Thank you so much for filling in the survey, yeah I hope I get as many responses as you did. And I totally agree with the riding levels, I always find it difficult to place horses in the right category as they are so broad.
 
I am doing a study that is looking at the extent of UK horse owners knowledge of equine nutrition, and the sources in which they use to collect information on equine nutrition. It would be of real help to the study if you could take a few moments to fill in the questionnaire which is linked below, all data that is collected will be kept anonymous. Thankyou!!:) https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JH3NM6L
 
tried but got:
The comment you entered is in an invalid format.
but didn't say what comment and didn't see what was wrong
 
Hi, if it is not working for you saying that it's in the wrong format. it is normally the county question, it sometimes works if you just type in uk as your county. Sorry about this.
 
Have completed but disagreed with some of it. As a committed forage feeder my horse does not get hard feed in the form of concentrates but that option was not available for a horse in light work and there are many many horses in light work that do not need concentrates. I therefore chose the lowest ratio of concentrates available although I would not feed any. I could not answer do not know to the calcium phosphorus question which was the most obvious one that people won't know so I guessed. Because my horse is fed simple systems there does not need to be a rest time between feeding and exercise but I did not answer that because I know that is not the answer wanted if feeding concentrates.
 
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