humblepie
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I remember feeding flaked maize and we used to feed molasses. A pony who was broken winded used to have gorse hung in his stable to chew.
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Very old fashioned horse feeds?
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Northern Hare
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Ah, that takes me back - didn't Main Ring mix come in either red or blue bags depending on the Mix? I always wondered what the beans were - now I know! ?
Palindrome
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80 years old farmer where I used to livery told me he used to feed bundles of oats (straw with the grains still attached) to working horses.
Interesting about the egg. The youngstock supplement that my vet sells has egg in it, they call it "ovoproduct", it is supposed to be very good and it worked well on my youngster who needed to put on weight.
Interesting about the egg. The youngstock supplement that my vet sells has egg in it, they call it "ovoproduct", it is supposed to be very good and it worked well on my youngster who needed to put on weight.
silv
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I feed "old fashioned feed" as it is referred to on here. The top selling product in the shop I work in is a mix consisting of crushed barley, faba beans, peas, lyesine and a tiny amount of molasses. Its about 2/3rds of the price of the leading brands of mixes with fancy packaging etc.
Granted it is not a complete feed but easy enough to add a mineral mix of choice. My horses do well on it. All winter I fed them on Oats, Peas, sugarbeet, lucerne chaff and a mineral mix. I soaked the peas along with the sugerbeet they loved it. They both looked great and had had plenty of energy for hunting, dressage etc. I won't to go back to the expensive mixes too costly!
The oats still with the straw attached sounds a great feed, lots of fibre there.
I remember Main Ring in the early 80's I think it was the first mix made, showing my age now! Before that you could only get Spillers horse and pony cubes I think.
Granted it is not a complete feed but easy enough to add a mineral mix of choice. My horses do well on it. All winter I fed them on Oats, Peas, sugarbeet, lucerne chaff and a mineral mix. I soaked the peas along with the sugerbeet they loved it. They both looked great and had had plenty of energy for hunting, dressage etc. I won't to go back to the expensive mixes too costly!
The oats still with the straw attached sounds a great feed, lots of fibre there.
I remember Main Ring in the early 80's I think it was the first mix made, showing my age now! Before that you could only get Spillers horse and pony cubes I think.
little_critter
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Canabalistic pony?
Burnttoast
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Tree hay?
humblepie
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Lol. Should be gorse. Better amend it
humblepie
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double post
PurBee
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thats it! Thanks bt.
Heres a little vid about it
https://www.agricology.co.uk/field/blog/tree-hay-forgotten-fodder
Burnttoast
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When elm trees were still a thing they were often 'shredded' for tree hay - they'd take all the side branches off and use the regrowth. There's a great pic from the 50s of the Clopton deserted village site in Cambs with all these enormous elms looking like bottle brushes, wish I could find it.
Goldenstar
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Am I the only person what’s to live thinking of how not to feed her horses .
fredflop
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Pony nuts and sugar beet.
have also given a poor doer oats when she needed to fatten up and I was on a budget!
have also given a poor doer oats when she needed to fatten up and I was on a budget!
Merry neddy man
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Ditto ( 50years ago )
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Merry neddy man
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Must be 40 years ago that we fed main ring red, (rocket fuel) there was also gold and orange
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Lois Lame
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A vet (an English fellow, somewhat long in the tooth at the time, who died some years ago) told someone I worked with that it wasn't the bran that had a laxative effect - it was the epsom salts that was added to it.
A bran mash doesn't prevent Monday Morning Disease so much as not let it occur, IYSWIM. A subtle difference.
Giving a bran mash on a rest day was not a 'sudden change of diet'. The horses would have had bran in their hard feed throughout the week. It's a lovely thing, IMO - broad bran. And very tasty.
Lois Lame
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Great video. Thanks for posting it.
criso
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What I have heard about Bran is that modern milling methods mean that it is no longer as nutritionally useful as it once was.
Glitter's fun
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Surely locust beans and maize were introduced after Black Beauty's era? (If a pre late 20th century text mentions "corn" it means grain crops, usually wheat.)
Field beans (vincia faba) and peas were the mainstay of uk farming until soya started being imported in the 20th century and are still extensively grown for inclusion in cattle and sheep feed and to give to racing pigeons. Beans grow better than peas in heavy clay soil and wetter counties but making sure there's no mould on them would have been a major issue in times before fossil fuel drying methods. Organic farmers like them because if you grow them in rotation between grain crops the different cultivation techniques keep grass weeds down.
Field beans (vincia faba) and peas were the mainstay of uk farming until soya started being imported in the 20th century and are still extensively grown for inclusion in cattle and sheep feed and to give to racing pigeons. Beans grow better than peas in heavy clay soil and wetter counties but making sure there's no mould on them would have been a major issue in times before fossil fuel drying methods. Organic farmers like them because if you grow them in rotation between grain crops the different cultivation techniques keep grass weeds down.
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Glitter's fun
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Memories from my grandparents.
The dray horses delivering beer to the pubs used to be given the lees from the bottom of the barrels. Supposedly it was good for them because of B vitamins and laxative affect. Don't know about that but they certainly liked it!
The heavy horses on the farms lived on a substantially chaff diet. I think it was about 2/3 chaff & then the other third was mostly oats with a small proportion of beans. Barley was considered harder for horses to digest but ok for cattle.
Bran mash was for a pick-me-up after unusually hard work, very cold & wet, a shock of some sort or foaling.
My Grandad used to add boiled linseed in small amounts to the feed of any animal (horse or cow) that was going to the market soon. It gave their coats a shine.
The dray horses delivering beer to the pubs used to be given the lees from the bottom of the barrels. Supposedly it was good for them because of B vitamins and laxative affect. Don't know about that but they certainly liked it!
The heavy horses on the farms lived on a substantially chaff diet. I think it was about 2/3 chaff & then the other third was mostly oats with a small proportion of beans. Barley was considered harder for horses to digest but ok for cattle.
Bran mash was for a pick-me-up after unusually hard work, very cold & wet, a shock of some sort or foaling.
My Grandad used to add boiled linseed in small amounts to the feed of any animal (horse or cow) that was going to the market soon. It gave their coats a shine.
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sbloom
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That may be a benefit but it's more than they're legumes and fix nitrogen in the soil, an essential part of any good crop rotation.
Starzaan
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Ohhh milk pellets are such a disappointment. I once took a HUGE fistful from the big tub we had for the foals (I must have been about ten) because it smelled like white chocolate. It does not taste like white chocolate. BLEGH.
criso
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There was probably so much molasses in the mix, that the milk pellets had a sweet coating and the texture was quite nice. These were really tiny and white with a yellow outside.
Copra smells lovely but doesn't taste nice.
SpotsandBays
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This has unlocked a memory for me! I used to pick them out of the cattle feed as a kid!
Blanche
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A friend in the states still feed this. They bale with the oats attached and just drop one in the feeders as needed. They are in the Dakotas and they all live out year round. They come out of winter very well.
ILuvCowparsely
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Also Mixed Flake
reynold
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I used to work for a permit holder in the 80s. He served in the army in WW2 as a vet and mule handler. Although we think of pony nuts as a modern feed he told me that they were using them as feed during mule training before deployment at a base in Scotland in the early 1940s.