What do you feed your 3 year old?

[rowy]

Have had my 3 year old for 5 weeks now. She had pretty much no weight and muscle when I first got her and it's slowly improving. She has a LOT of growing to do. She is very physically immature for her age. Both my farrier and physio commented on this and physio suggested putting her on a stud balancer?

Currently I have her on 1/3 scoop fibre pencils, 1/3 scoop chaff and 170g micronised linseed.

 

[maestro]

As a native I would just make sure she has as much Hay/haylage as she can eat with hifi nuts and a general balancer. She will grow into herself in her own time. My own 3 year olds are just on grass with access to a rockies mineral lick and one is nearly 17hh and has more than enough weight for her age. I hate to see young horses looking too mature.

 

[WelshD]

My 3 year old sounds similar condition to yours

I have resisted the urge to feed him up (though goodness knows I fought it!) he was on steroids which made things tricker as they increase the risk of lami

He gets D&H high fibre nuts, unmollassed chaff, a bit of fast fibre, micronised linseed and literally tiny bit of Baileys Outshine, the whole feed is much less than half a stubbs scoop in all and he is fed once a day. He is looking a lot better

 

[rowy]

Maestro, even though she is part native she is not a good doer at all. The stud I bought her from had very good grazing but her hip bones and back bone were still very visible when I first got her but much improved now she is on a feed.
She has been wormed 4 weeks ago and will worm her again in another week or do with the tape wormer.

 

[rascal]

Both my sec d who is 4 and hubbys sec a who is 3 are on happy hoof and hifi cubes. They all have a rockies lick. My horse gets calm and condition if he needs it in winter.