What do you feed your cobs?

OK so I've got two hairy mammoths. Both out 24/7, both unrugged, and have been so all winter.

Both mares. One 5, the other 7yo. Both good doers who are on goodish pasture - but hopefully not too good!

They don't get fed any hay unless they're standing in for any reason, which isn't often (usually only for farrier/vets, or somewhere just to chuck them for say an hour or whatever); the only time I did feel sorry for them and put them in was in the snow we had backalong. Within a couple of hours of putting them inside, the blighters were stressing and banging their doors and cr@pping everywhere, obviously wanted to go out again!

I feed them once a day, morning feed (much easier!). They have a single fist-full each of Top Spec and (soaked) Speedibeet. Added Supplement is one scoop per feed of Benevit Advance.

I don't feed anything for any "marish'ness" - hope we don't come to that!!
 
Mine's a gelding...but he gets 1 small feed/day. He has a double handful of soaked speedibeet with half a mug of micronised linseed, a spoon of salt and forageplus general balancer. He used to get brewer's yeast but has decided it's Of The Devil. He's in at night weekdays and has 7kg of hay in 2 small hole nets, one is double netted.

I'm reading up on feeding additional magnesium as the grass here is pretty rich and his white line is stretching a little - I went to a Nic Barker clinic last weekend & she suggested this as a first response.
 
Early days as I've only had him two weeks tomorrow, but he gets one feed of two handfuls of Pure Easy. He is on pretty good grazing though and I intend to put a fence up this weekend, to section some off. Hay or haylage for grooming or standing on yard for farrier.
 
Mine is 16hh, mare, good doer, out during the day in a bare 'trash paddock' and in at night during wet weather. She gets haylage and a tiny bucket feed of a very small handful of dampened haycobs, linseed oil and salt with limestone flour until they get fed up of it, because we are on acidic soil and most of the calcium washed out last winter. Her Appaloosa friend gets the same.
 
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All mine have the same 200grms grass nuts, 200grms pink mash, small handful of alafalfa chaff (pure alfalfa) salt, (turmeraid for the two oldies) just about covers the tub bottom. If they drop weight they get linseed. live out 24/7 on short grass a slice of a small bale of hay does two or three of them
 
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Mine get... nothing! They live out 24/7 and do have hay in the field, but they are both incredibly good doers who balloon as soon as they look at food. I have tried balancers in the past, but they sent the younger one loopy and made no real difference to her mum, so I don't bother with those anymore either. My ISH gets the same.
 
Mines also a gelding sorry!
He’s in at night on ad-lib soaked hay which to be fair isn’t a massive amount. He doesn’t pig on it.
Out by day in a fairly bare field, again I try to supply enough hay that they never run out.
Feed wise he has a bit under a scoop of hifi lite and the same of speedibeet with a joint supplement and a respiratory supplement. His weight is pretty spot on I think at the moment. He never gets proper hard feed.
 
Mine gets a handful of low calorie chaff with his magox and joint supplement. He does get plenty of hay in a small holed net. He lives out rugless with shelter and is currently a good weight.
 
Very tiny token feed that just covers the bottom of bucket

Grass nuts- micronised linseed- brewers yeast- salt -grass chaff
 
Adlib hay as stabled overnight. Small amount of pink mash with a handful of unmollassed chaff as a carrier for supplement and salt. He gets a supplement from Calm Healthy Horses as he was displaying symptoms that their supplements address.
 
14.2hh LW cob mare gets a mix of hay and high fibre haylage ad lib overnight and out on grass during the day. She gets pink mash, grass chaff, a tiny hanful of Copra, just finishing a sack off and wont replace, salt, vitamin e and a mineral balancer. Shes arrived hugely fat but now I've got the weight off shes incredibly easy to maintain. She looks and feels great at the minute. Shes in light work. Driving for 45mins 4 times a week mainly trotting.
 
The tinest bit of chaff with a joint supplement. Haylage at night and a fairly bare field during the same. Some haylage in the field if the weather is terrible
 
Nothing, only haylage, they are all yarded atm, some have free access to forage, 3 have it netted. Oh and salt licks
I have a load of feed bought to get the oldies thru the winter but they haven't needed it
 
Cob with respiratory problems out at night in through the day gets a tiny handful of chaff and respiratory supplement and weighed haylage when in.
 
Domino's a 16hh 20 year old.
He's in the stable day and night just now to protect the fields. Which means that daily he goes through two large nets of haylage (9kg each) and a night time feed of chaff, non-heating mix and speedibeet. Supplement-wise he gets garlic, haylage balancer and turmeric.
 
2x light weight cobs. 200g of Saracens Shape Up and 150g of linseed twice a day during the winter and once a day in the summer. The gelding tends to lose weight quite easily and gets very lethargic without hard feed. The mare tends to keep her weight better but needs the linseed for her skin otherwise gets very day and flaky
 
2 cups of Saracen shape up and a handful of chaff. Hay over night. In full work 6 days a week and competing and she's never looked better
 
3 yr old cob gets nothing and is on a track system and is still fat! 13 yr old is on 10 acres of good grass and gets a bucket feed of thunderbrooks grass nuts, linseed, copra and chaff and keeps a nice steady weight. Both live out 24/7.
 
One who is pampered to an inch of his life, handful of happy hoof, handful of grass, cupfull of grass nuts, cup of balancer plus good quality haylege. Supplements gut balancer, 4cyte, salt. Looks good, in full work and competing.
The other one (youngster) out 24/7 with hay & grass. He will be going to school in 2 weeks and will still be on nothing bar hay a sooooo fat.
 
My 15.1 heavyweight cob in full work, clipped out and living in at night and out in the day has ad lib haylege when in at the mo cos he’s lost a bit of weight, he has 2 feeds a day of havens slobbermash when he’s dropping weight - gives him a nice bit of pop but doesn’t send him nuts. When there’s loads of grass I cut the haylege back and feed him a scoop of hifi lite and baileys low cal balancer ... this is mainly because this is what I feed the little ones so I’ve got it in all the time ...
 
15hh heavyweight cob, out during the day and in at night. There's enough grass to keep her occupied during the day, and she gets a haynet at night. She also gets a couple of handfuls of unmolassed chaff, but she turns her nose up at it. I keep giving it, on the grounds that if she gets actually hungry overnight, rather than just the usual-state-of-cob hungry, she'll eat it.

She's only in light work - half an hour of walk/trot schooling three times a week, and a 2-3 hour walk/trot hack at the weekend.
 
I have a 13.2 - 7yr old cob mare in light/medium work.

She gets 375g of Saracen Essentail Balancer split between two meals and a Stubbs round scoop of Hi-Fi Lite split between two meals with Omega Vitality added. Unlimited hay over night (stabled) and a round of hay in the field. She’s spot on body condition score.
 
At the moment, they have a round bale of haylege to munch. The two retired beasts get a token feed. The beast in work gets fed a little more than a token feed. Tbh all they need is the haylege but their
co-owner likes to feed them, so they get a little bit of hard feed.

Edited to add; mine aren't cobs. However one is an Irish draught and another is an ID X tb and they have
cob -like appetites. I can even see them smiling while they tuck in to the haylege. The draught even rests her head on the bale and falls asleep after she's eaten her fill :rolleyes:
 
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