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Yes I know yet again another thread, but I'm really at the end off my tether here
Small tb pony only 14hh she's so skinny,
She's on ad lib hay and hayledge
and eating calm and condition with alpha a and bailies number 4, top line nuts, small feed 3 times a day, and lineseed in her feed
Any ideas? Waiting for the grass to come through in think!
 
hi have you had the teeth checked ? wormed? id also have a look at the recommended amounts of the baileys and alfa a to make sure your feeding enough. ive had this trouble with my boy being a bit skinny cos he doesnt eat enough haylage so i give him a huge bucket of alfabeet every night and he has actually put weight on now:)
 
I would feed all haylage, and you could try her on micronised linseed. Personally, I wouldn't bother with conditioning feeds as it is lots of forage she needs. Good haylage is the same joules per KG than conditioning feeds and much better for the horse. I would feed a fibre based feed such as fast fibre and 100g micronised linseed, gradually increasing over ten days to 400 g.
 
Yes teeth worming etc all up to date, she's having half a scoop off the calm and condition and 1/4 off nuts with half alpha, don't want to over do it as she's such a tiny pony and with grass just round the corner don't want to make her ill!
She actually really hates hard food, she will eat most off her forage (still lots left in morning) but won't ever eat her breakfast as she wants to go out, and takes pretty much the whole night to eat her dinner! Doesn't have a very big appetite!
 
As said before on other posts. Plenty of hay/haylage as much as they want. I reccomend plenty of turnout, I also like linseed I feed 3 mugs, pure condition rate it lots!
 
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