What do you feed and why?

My boy gets a quarter of hifi and nuts three times a day. I believe in feeding little and often, the hifi doesn't really hold much nutritional value, and the nuts a pretty simple all round feed. He has cortaflex in his dindins for mobility and joints, and oil for condition. Its a pretty simple system he's got but it works well for him and he loves having little feeds to look forward to throughout the day.
 
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Ellie is on D&H pasture mix, D&H topline conditioning cubes, speedibeet 3 times a week and a handful of the cheapest mollichaff I can find!

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Hmmm 3 times a week or day?
 
Berry has Alfalfa-Oil, SB and Hi-Fi Lite - this last is to slow the greedy piglet down, so H can eat his dinner!

H has, Alfalfa-Oil, SB, Mix (depending on his weight/growth) and Suregrow - atm he is also getting biotin.

B has Alfalfa-Oil, SB and Stud Mix - no longer on Suregrow, as she is on the recommended amount of Stud Mix.

They all get carrots and ad lib hay and have free access to rock salt mineral licks. All are out 24/7 atm. B will be coming in at night Easter weekend.
 
Solo gets

Alfa A (2kg a day)
Baileys Economy Cubes (1kg a day)
Baileys cooked cereal meal (.5kg a day)
Speedi Beet (1kg a day)

Red gets

Alfa A (1.5kg a day)
Baileys Economy mix (.5kg a day)
Speedi Beet (.5kg a day)

Both get ad-lib haylage at night.

Sol gets his recipe as so far, he's kept the condition on well and hasn't been too fizzy- its the first winter in the 5 years i have had him that he hasn't looked like a hatrack.
Red gets his as we have a constant battle with his waistline, yet he still has enough energy to hunt.
 
18yo pony gets a scoop of molichaff (as he can rush his food) and half a scoop of cool mix. He also gets two scoops of his herbal supplement to help his joints, seems to do him fine
 
For me, the most important part of the diet is forage - we don't have tons of grazing so the horses get plenty of hay or haylage. My fatty just gets a handful of AlfaBeet as a token when the others are fed. Daughter's pony gets Spiller's High Fibre Cubes (soaked so no chaff needed). Big veteran mare gets a combination of AlfaBeet, veg oil and micronized barley which seems to keep her weight on much better than all the veteran and conditioning feeds I tried.
 
Youngstock get Alfa A, beet and D&H Suregrow, plus the 2 2yos also get Calm & Condition as need to carry a little more condition if they are going showing this year.
Broodmares are all within 3 months of foaling so get Alfa A, beet and D&H mare & Youngstock Mix.

Ridden horses get Alfa A, beet, High Fibre Cubes and Calm & Condition.

Dell gets minimal Alfa A and beet plus Suregrow as she is a good doer and needs the the Alfa and beet just to mix her suregrow with
 
'Big boys' 13.2's fully fit and having about 45 mins work mpst days.
Freddie- Grass and hay! He has a grass belly but poor top line, more do do with he is as tense as a spring when working.
Brook- Grass and hay! He is just right, well covered but not fat.
Ginga- Grass and Hay! Looking good, but cresty!
Pip- Grass, hay and a scoop of cool mix. IMO perfect condition.
Bobbie-Grass Hayledge, a scoop of blue chip and cool mix. Abit fine, not TOO bad, but with spring coming it is good.
Rory- Grass, Hayledge, a scoop or blue chip and cool mix. Lovely condition, very, maybe too fit, but could bave more topline.
Richard- Grass, hay and a scoop of cool mix. Well covered but def.not fat.

The shettie and welsh A have grass, neither in real work, just an hour or so a weekend.

TBH I think most people could get away with feeding much less than they do.
 
In the summer,

handful Chaff
Farriers formula - feet
Garlic - coat and blood etc
Oil - health and energysupplements with handful of chaff - he lives out 24/7

Winter

1/2 scoop Woodcray mix
3/4 scoop Chaff
Farriers formula - feet
Garlic - coat and blood etc
Glucosomine - stiff in cold
Oil - health and energy
 
My girl is a good doer (abit like myself!) so she just gets a handful of Happy Hoof and Hi Fibre Cubes cos they are both low in calories and 5 equibites a day so that she gets her vitamin requirements. She's also turned out for half a day every day she also gets 2 nets of haylage a day.
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Molichaff - owner told me that's the only chaff she can have. I cut all of her hard feed out a few weeks ago when she started acting up. I figured if she had the energy for what she was doing, she didn't need hard feed. So now she gets half a scoop of molichaff in the evening to have her Cortaflex in.
 
ad lib hay for both of them

jay gets
copra meal
safe & sound[ he likes it
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sugar beet
veg
vit/min supplement

has a rock salt lick hanging up

fizz gets
safe & sound
sugar beet
veg
vit/min supplement

rock salt lick

they get fed all year round
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All mine get the same feed but in different amounts to suit their weight, temperaments and work loads.

They also get any additional supplements according to their own needs.

I just feed Copra Meal and a locally milled Cool Mix - easy!
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All mine are fed twice a day and have carrots for lunch.

They all have ad - lib haylage overnight in their stables and turn-out for a minimum of 10 hours a day on reasonable grazing.
 
I would rather my boy has more hay than hard feed as can get a bit tizzy. In winter he has under one scoop of allen and Page Calm and Condition once a day and garlic powder, plus two nets of hay. Calm and Con has all vits and mins in it so no need for supplements. In summer if grass is good he has a couple of handfuls just to put his garlic in and that is it, and he was a great weight last summer, if a little porky! This is a medium weight 19 y o warmblood who does not put on weight easily. Calm and Condition is a great feed, soaks in five mins and is then all soft and easy to digest. All my friends that feed it, happy hackers and those that compete at a high level, all love this feed. You need feed nothing else with it as long as they have access to hay and/or grass.
 
Young horse in medium work - high fibre/high oil diet. At grass 24/7, gets 2 feeds a day of flat scoop Hi-Fi Lite, half scoop Baileys endurance mix, half scoop sugar beet, (second feed also contains oil, salt, NAF Magic calmer, Superflex, and now D-Itch). When he progresses to hard work in the summer he'll get more endurance mix.

Retired plump horse gets Baileys Lo-Cal, handful of Hi Fi and a suspicion of sugar beet.

They both get hay only when there's snow on the ground or it's frosty.
 
14h NF pony out 24/7 and having hay in field. Gets half a scoop of baileys meadow mix plus NAF mud guard in winter and Lamineze in the spring (he's not laminitic just precaution and it is good for his hooves).

When I was a child we feed baileys to our ponies and now as a grown up the habit has continued. He looks great on it and loves it.
 
My two have conditioning mix (spillers), chaff with garlic and speedibeet (scoop for the big one, half for the other; plus Readigrass until the field picks up. If It is snowy or hard frosts then I do put a bale of hay out.

The bigger one loses condition quickly, so I will feed him throughout the year. Other is native and will just get a handful of chaff during summer.
 
I feed HiFi lite, Bailey's LoCal balancer and sugar beet. Why? HiFi because he's allergic to alfalfa in any larger quantities that in HiFi lite, and I want him on a high fiber chaff; the LoCal balancer because he is a good doer but I want to make sure he's getting his vitamins and minerals without putting on any extra weight, and sugar beet because it is high fiber and succulent.

He also gets cortaflex, Biotal equine gold and garlic. He's on this all year round and is a dressage horse in medium work. I add tiger oats if I feel he needs extra sparkle, but he usually has enough! His coat is always glossy and shiny, and he look very good on this ration.
 
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