What are you feeding your ponies....!

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Just back from the yard.... one of the liveries asked me what I "Feed" my welsh sec a and welsh sec c??

My reply was.... just a handful of apples, carrots mixed with alittle chaff when they come in from the field and they have their haynets. She looked horrified! Then went on to tell me all about her horses getting 2 meals aday ect....

Leads me on to ask.... what are you all feeding your hardy wee ponies? :rolleyes:
 
Sounds fine to me if they don't need anything else.
Coblet - Handful of chaff to mix supplements with, handful of balancer & a bit of veg, once a day. Half a handful of chaff in the morning with a tiny bit of carrot or cabbage. Ad lib hay and half a swede to play with :) (all lo cal and weight is good ;) )
 
Hay, fast fibre and pony nuts in her treatball. Could never feed her apples and carrots .. She's lami prone so it's a very very occasional treat!
 
Well the two good doers have a token breakfast of a handful of homemade chaff (1/2 straw, 1/2 hay) and a splodge of soaked unmollassed sugar beet and an all round vit and mineral supplement (at the moment baileys Lo Cal). The oldie and my daughters ISH have the same but in larger quantities with a scoop of grass nuts.

They all have soaked hay, pretty much add lib, apart form my fellow who needs to loose weight so he has soaked hay mixed with straw.
 
My 14 hand hunting pony gets two feeds a day of Baileys Lo Cal and a little micronised linseed and she gets a couple of carrots when the big boys get their lunchtime feed, alongside plenty of haylage.
 
Both get either ad-lib late cut hay or unrestricted grazing depending on time of year. Hay cut from same as grazing, plentiful but very rough & not at all rich. Both have salt licks. 14.2 connie x tb age 23 has a stubbs scoop of hi-fi lite split into am & pm feeds, & maybe 4 or 5 pieces of fruit & veg.11.1 mini x gets a supplement scoop of hi-fi lite when 14.2 is fed, & 1 or 2 pieces of fruit or veg a day. Tbh I only feed the hifi lite because 14.2 was in hard work most of her life & expects a bucket 2x a day, or I wouldn't bother at all.
 
My welsh sec a is 'good doer' and lives of fresh air, when he is out 24/7 which is usually mar- nov he just gets grass ( which has to be restricted) when he has to come in over night he gets a section of hay.
He has a mineral lick but doesn't really bother with it.
 
I was feeding Simple Systems ... But I'm a bit too unorganised to feed it (as it relies on me specially ordering it - organisation is not my strong point).

To be fair, he wouldn't get a bucked feed if it wasn't for all the other horse's on the yard & him needing some supplements.

Morning & P.M
Handful or two of Hi Fi Lite
Sprinkling of high fibre nuts
Scoop of magnesium
Salt
General purpose vitamin and mineral supplement

Ad-lib hay (soaked in Spring/Summer/Autumn)

In the winter 8-10 hours of turn out on pretty poor grazing.

He's an approximately 14hh New Forest Pony.
 
A handful of chaff morning and night ( more for the supplements than anything else ) small hand ful of pegasus cubes ( trying to use them up she doesn't neeed them anymore )carrots apples and bread depending on there being stuff going stale in the fridge and a 1 kg luice brix which i cut in half for her over night as she will not eat more than 6kg a night if she been out all day if she in then two hays one monring 6kg and one night 6kg flips the haynet over the bars ( amercian type stables) if i give her more than 6kg.. strange horse...
 
Our fields are just mud at the moment. My Arab x Friesan gets a hay net of haylage in the field during the day, a larger hay net of haylage at night and he has access to a salt lick in his stable. That is it......... with the odd carrot.
 
Mine are fed daily 250 grms of fast fibre 250 grms of grass nuts 250grms of calm and condition all soaked together. 200 grms of speedibeet double handful of ready grass. make about half a bucket of feed in lots of water
the ridden pony get that lot times three and a mug of linseed. They are out 24/7 are a good weight but dont have much hay as they wont eat it wet so have to have as much as they can eat in about 10 minutes. Less food than that I have a problem with poo level dropping off Hay give the highland diahorrea
 
Mine are stabled over night and out on crappy pasture by day, both natives but complete polar opposites!

The un-rugged fat cob gets restricted hay, what grass he can (old & stemmy) & a himalayan lick. I think, at last, he is starting to drop off :fingerscrossed:

The NF (who I am convinced is infact a mini TB) gets 4 x scoops of Happy Tummy & adlib full fat haylage !!! He was on Calm & Condition but it didn`t really do much for him apart from make him very shiny! Since he has been on the HT he has put on some condition which is needed as he had a virus before Xmas that really knocked him back :(
 
My Shetland gets Hayledge, fibre beet and has a natural salt lick. He's 27, and we have little grass in the winter paddock as it's had an absolute pasting this year.
Oh, and contraversially he is rugged too, and stabled overnight - no comments please
 
My little fattie gets a sprinkling of chaff + a blob of unmollased sugar beet twice a day, it just keeps her quiet when I feed the others.
At night she has a small holed haylage net of hay.
If the grass is frosty she gets a slice or 2 of hay
 
I used to give my section A a handful of Happy Hoof chaff, with a carrot or apple and a slice of hay when she came in at night.

I give my Vanner cob and my OH's Welsh D a handful of Happy Hoof chaff with a carrot or apple and a slice of hay when they come in at night!!

My vet once said to me that the biggest cause of laminitis and and an obese pony is an ignorant owner .. that has stuck with me since, and over the years I have see the proof of this over and over again.

Sounds like you have got it right ...
 
One has lite balancer and tiny handful alfalfa nuts plus garlic.
Other has original balancer, 2 cups of alfalfa pellets and same of kwikbeet. Garlic and mobility herbs. Plus ad lib hay and few carrots. Happy healthy ponies!
 
Have 2 13hh native ponies (1 Eriskay and 1 Dartmoor) who share their feeds and hay etc. they were just on hay and unrugged etc. but Mouse (the Eriskay) was cold and had reached a good weight (desperately trying to get both to lose weight before spring kicks in) so now they have lightweight turnouts on and get a small feed of chaff and sugar beet to share, just so they maintain their weight at the moment.
 
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