What Are You Feeding Your Yearlings This Winter?

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Also is it usual for yearlings to drop quite a bit of weight at this time of year?

I'm a bit worried about Pixies weight, she seems to have dropped a lot over the last few weeks but up until then she was doing really well. She is nearly 18months and is out 24/7 with ad-lib hay.


So what are you feeding your yearlings and how are they doing on it?

ETA - She is currently getting a scoop of Chaff, half a scoop of light mix and some speedi Beet.
 
I have my youngster out 24/7 with haylage in the morning and evening as we dont have much grass. Hes a TB x cob and is rugged up and only has 1 feed a day. He gets 1 heaped scoop of alfa a lite, just over a quarter of a scoop of d&h pasture mix and the same for d&h high fibre cubes with 2 scoops NAF haylage balancer. He's doing really well and looks much better now than he has before, he's really chilled too whereas I had him on stud mix last year and he was barmy!
 
Ad-lib hay, salt/mineral lick, alfa cubes and soaked oats.
Out 24/7. Unrugged. No grass available whatsoever. Hasn't been above -3C since December (oh apart from 2 days)
14h Quarab filly. Coat like a yak, hasn't dropped weight at all and has grown an inch in height in the last 4 months, feeling well because she's going through the terrible twos and is being a right flaming madam!

Totally up to the individual, I have found that yearlings seem to go up and down weightwise, especially if they are having a growing spurt. It is not usually a very attractive phase of their development and even with the best care and attention they can still sometimes look gawky and unkempt.
 
My 2 are going to be 2 in April, dutch X TB, never been rugged, brilliant weight, fed basic garlic chaff and saracen level grow mix, ad lib hay.
 
My 19 month old Hanoverian is fed D&H Suregrow 1kg and just a blob of Alpha beet to mix it up in, she has around 8kg good haylage at night (I'd give her more, but she doesn't eat it) and if frozen the girls have haylage out in the field, but if not they are out without in a field with bits to nibble on but not much.

She is in at night though, as nothing for her to stay out with and we don't have suitable fields for them to live out 24/7 in winter as no shelter.

Unrugged though and she is doing great, trying to keep her at about a 2-2.5 on the condition score scale as that is what has been recommended by D&H, but difficult to tell amongst all the fluff, but I think she's grown since I got her in December and during the growing bit she dropped off, but now seems to be filling out again, so I will watch her watch doesn't get too high.
 
Out 24/7 on 20 acres of rough pasture with plenty of grass, no additional hay or haylage.

18mnth old Luso PB: Fed twice daily with 3/4 scoop soaked SS red grass nuts, 1/2 scoop Alfa Oil ( was on Just grass as chaff but did drop some condition in th really cold / snowy weather so on this for a couple of weeks to fill her out a bit), plus brewers yeast, seaweed and linseed (same as SS Total Eclipse but cheaper to buy componants in bulk)

She's nicely ribby, but not scrawny which she was when she arrived from Portugal, so this feed regime is working well for her.

I feed exactly same to my rising 4yr old Luso filly and she looks like this on it
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After the mass of rain and then snow I relented and rugged the newfie foals.
They are out 24/7, with ad lib hay as the grass is currently more like a bog, and get chaff, handful of mix, sugarbeet, and oilovite twice a day.
They are holding their weight and are growing nicely.
 
Last year my yearling was on add lib hay, a dengie vit and min lick and a handfull of hi-fi lite and high fibre cubes twice a day. He was in quite poor contionion when I got him but absolutely blossomed on this regime - especially when the spring grass came through.

He still goes through ribby and gangly stages as he is still growing - FAST. But I think it's pretty natural and this winter has been particularly hard with a good two weeks of snow on the ground...
 
16 month TB X QH out 24/7 on rubbish grass. Looking very well on ad lib hay, one and a half scoops dengie hi fi, 2 cups baileys stud balancer and 3/4 scoop speedie beet once a day. He is rugged but has no field shelter only trees.
 
My yearling is looking a bit scrawny but it's largely because he's shot up again at the back. He seems to have massive spurts of growth - the farrier was surprised how much he's grown since before Crimbo. He comes in at night with ad lib hay and is fed level scoop of just grass and about a third of a scoop of Stud & Youngstock mix, twice a day.
 
8 month colt and 18 month filly both out 24/7. Rugged when v bad and are on ad lib hay and 2 feeds per day of scoop A&P fast fibre, garlic and large scoop of alfa a. Foal eats as much as he can before filly finishes hers and moves onto his!
 
I think I may put her on to a young-stock mix but I'll take some piccys tomorrow and you can all see what you think. Maybe I am worrying about nothing as per usual!
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