midnight2025
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I thought these would be a fun thread to make. What do you feed your horse
What do you feed your horse
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The Xmas Furry
Old Timer
This and last month:
Fuzzy 1, half a small apple
Fuzzy 2, the other half of small apple
Fuzzy 3, Top Spec zero, Pure feeds veteran (no, shes not old, but this works best for maintenance).
Fuzzy 1, half a small apple
Fuzzy 2, the other half of small apple
Fuzzy 3, Top Spec zero, Pure feeds veteran (no, shes not old, but this works best for maintenance).
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
Daytime she has poor grass.
Night time she has dry hay.
She is dong unaff dressage, BS B Nov. and hacking as well as a fair bit of schooling.
The week it was unbearably hot she had some sloppy Speedybeet with a handful of chop just to have some electrolytes. That was her first feed since October!
Night time she has dry hay.
She is dong unaff dressage, BS B Nov. and hacking as well as a fair bit of schooling.
The week it was unbearably hot she had some sloppy Speedybeet with a handful of chop just to have some electrolytes. That was her first feed since October!
The Trooper
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Belle, nothing unless ridden, when ridden she literally gets a small handful of chaff and nuts.
Bonnie gets 1.5 cups calm and condition, 1 square scoop linseed, 1 square scoop Baileys 4 conditioning cubes.
Who said natives were good doers?
Bonnie gets 1.5 cups calm and condition, 1 square scoop linseed, 1 square scoop Baileys 4 conditioning cubes.
Who said natives were good doers?
HappyHollyDays
3 yard cats and 2 ponies
Not much grass, not a lot of hay and some soaked chaff to carry supplements. Vet saw both horses last week and commented what good condition their coats were in and how little food our horses actually need.
Mahoganybay
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Out during the day on poor grass, in at night on dry hay.
Bucket feed she gets Alpha A Oil Chop, Saracen Releve, electrolytes and Fibre Beet.
In good work, ridden 6 out of 7 days, schooling, hacking and lessons. We compete at Dressage.
She looks good, muscles in all the right places and at a good weight. My vet and physio are pleased with her.
Bucket feed she gets Alpha A Oil Chop, Saracen Releve, electrolytes and Fibre Beet.
In good work, ridden 6 out of 7 days, schooling, hacking and lessons. We compete at Dressage.
She looks good, muscles in all the right places and at a good weight. My vet and physio are pleased with her.
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splash30
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Happy hoof h/f
Balancer - cup
Grass nuts - cup
Just grass h/f
Cheap as chips to keep, good doers. We have good grass and haylage.
Balancer - cup
Grass nuts - cup
Just grass h/f
Cheap as chips to keep, good doers. We have good grass and haylage.
dixie
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Thunderbrooks Chaff - 1 scoop pm, 1/2 scoop am
Grass nuts - token handful
Thunderbrooks Base mix
carrots, salt, linseed oil
Ron Fields UlcEx
Out PM on poorish grass, in by day with ad lib hay.
He's a Irish TB.
Grass nuts - token handful
Thunderbrooks Base mix
carrots, salt, linseed oil
Ron Fields UlcEx
Out PM on poorish grass, in by day with ad lib hay.
He's a Irish TB.
windand rain
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All get a small scoop of alfalfa
small cup of pink mash
small cup of equidgel
Oldies get conditioning cubes one mug
Baby gets suregrow one mug
they are out 24/7 on restricted grazing that looks like a bowling green
small cup of pink mash
small cup of equidgel
Oldies get conditioning cubes one mug
Baby gets suregrow one mug
they are out 24/7 on restricted grazing that looks like a bowling green
ihatework
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Opposite ends of the scale - 1 gets grass and could do with less of that, 1 gets ad-lib grass or haylage and 4kg racehorse cubes/day
JFTDWS
+++ Out of Cheese Error +++
Nothing. Half blooded QH, two highlands, all in reasonable but not heavy work. Various forms of magic grass / weeds grow in the field for them though...
Roasted Chestnuts
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Yearling Welsh D
1 x cup of Suregrow Balancer (soaked)
1 x cup of Fibrebeet (soaked)
1 x cup of Dengie Senior (using up the last bag I bought before Kia was PTS )
He gets this once per day and looks Like this presently
1 x cup of Suregrow Balancer (soaked)
1 x cup of Fibrebeet (soaked)
1 x cup of Dengie Senior (using up the last bag I bought before Kia was PTS )
He gets this once per day and looks Like this presently
Leo Walker
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Saracens Re-Leve. Not my first choice but shes refusing to eat anything else! She also gets electrolyes and equimins advance. Shes out on poor grazing and working hard.
throughtheforest
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I have a 2018 traditional cob yearling who arrived looking pretty poor. He's out 24/7 on OK to poor grazing, has access to hay 24/7 and has 2 large handfuls of Thunderbrooks healthy herbal muesli once a day. He's looking and acting more energetic on this having been on it for just over a week.
vmac66
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Soaked Hay daytime
Restricted grazing overnight.
Small scoop Honeychop light and healthy for supplements
She has lost 60k in 3 months on this regime
Restricted grazing overnight.
Small scoop Honeychop light and healthy for supplements
She has lost 60k in 3 months on this regime
MuddyMonster
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Small handful of Thunderbrooks hay cobs (soaked) with Equimins Advance Complete, MSM & Magnesium Chloride.
Muzzled at night when turned out & soaked hay when in during the day.
In light work hacking up to 30 miles a week with low level jumping & dressage schooling.
Muzzled at night when turned out & soaked hay when in during the day.
In light work hacking up to 30 miles a week with low level jumping & dressage schooling.
Surbie
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Mostly just grass and 2-3kg wet hay depending on how long he is in, then :
- mag ox
- micronised linseed
- equimins biotin 15
- forageplus balancer with a handful of speedibeet to carry it.
He won't eat the forageplus balancer at the right measures for his weight, and I've bought 2 bags of the ruddy stuff. Vet & farrier advised the biotin when his feet had issues in the wet, so equimins gets enough in him. As soon as the forageplus is finished (Christmas?!) I am switching to something that he likes better. I make up 2 weeks' worth of dry feeds in bags and just add water at the yard each day.
He won't eat big feeds. Despite being a cob.
Hacking about 30-35 miles/week I think and 2 one hour (ish) sessions in the school & 1-2 rest days so not in huge amounts of work.
- mag ox
- micronised linseed
- equimins biotin 15
- forageplus balancer with a handful of speedibeet to carry it.
He won't eat the forageplus balancer at the right measures for his weight, and I've bought 2 bags of the ruddy stuff. Vet & farrier advised the biotin when his feet had issues in the wet, so equimins gets enough in him. As soon as the forageplus is finished (Christmas?!) I am switching to something that he likes better. I make up 2 weeks' worth of dry feeds in bags and just add water at the yard each day.
He won't eat big feeds. Despite being a cob.
Hacking about 30-35 miles/week I think and 2 one hour (ish) sessions in the school & 1-2 rest days so not in huge amounts of work.
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rara007
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Quite a bit! This is per 24hours
In medium touching on hard work some weeks if you consider travelling horse average doer, when he’s home=
Adlib average grass 23 hours a day
Adlib haylage 1 hour a day
AlfaA oil chaff - double handful
Linseed - round scoop
Until last week was also on equijewel
Blue chip pro- square scoop
electrolytes
acid ease
When he’s away it’s the same but with Adlib haylage and he chooses quite a high amount of straw...!
The retired pony has gone fat so he’s on restricted grass 19 hours a day. He’s not been fed for some years and often competed without any hard feed.
In medium touching on hard work some weeks if you consider travelling horse average doer, when he’s home=
Adlib average grass 23 hours a day
Adlib haylage 1 hour a day
AlfaA oil chaff - double handful
Linseed - round scoop
Until last week was also on equijewel
Blue chip pro- square scoop
electrolytes
acid ease
When he’s away it’s the same but with Adlib haylage and he chooses quite a high amount of straw...!
The retired pony has gone fat so he’s on restricted grass 19 hours a day. He’s not been fed for some years and often competed without any hard feed.
scats
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Welsh part bred, ridden 5 times a week-
Speedi beet, lite balancer and micronised linseed
Sports horse- PSD recovery so works lightly 2/3 days a week-
Lite chaff, speedi beet, micronised linseed.
They both have magnesium, cortaflex and MSM.
Speedi beet, lite balancer and micronised linseed
Sports horse- PSD recovery so works lightly 2/3 days a week-
Lite chaff, speedi beet, micronised linseed.
They both have magnesium, cortaflex and MSM.
SEL
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Appy x draft with PSSM and in light work due to ouchy back issues
- minimal grass with about 2kg of soaked hay am and pm
- a tonne of supplements hidden in about 10 dry flakes of kwik beet and a teaspoon of copra all soaked in a lot of water to flavour her scoop of topchop zero.
- glug of oil when she's working because she has no energy without it.
Ardennes
- basically the same as above but more of it.
- can have grass
- bit of linseed
- as many carrots as he can beg by looking pitiful
- the odd swede .
- minimal grass with about 2kg of soaked hay am and pm
- a tonne of supplements hidden in about 10 dry flakes of kwik beet and a teaspoon of copra all soaked in a lot of water to flavour her scoop of topchop zero.
- glug of oil when she's working because she has no energy without it.
Ardennes
- basically the same as above but more of it.
- can have grass
- bit of linseed
- as many carrots as he can beg by looking pitiful
- the odd swede .
tankgirl1
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Summer - nowt, just grass and the odd carrot/apple/mint
Winter - out in the day on grass, in at night on hay. Small handful of pony nuts at bring in so they think they are getting a bucket.
Winter - out in the day on grass, in at night on hay. Small handful of pony nuts at bring in so they think they are getting a bucket.
Chippers1
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Summer - Out 24/7 on various grass, they're moved between two adjacent fields when one is eaten down. Polo if he's lucky. Not ridden as much as he should be at he moment.
Winter - Whatever he will eat (not a lot) although we did have some success with pink mash before the grass grew.
I think he looks ok at the moment:
Winter - Whatever he will eat (not a lot) although we did have some success with pink mash before the grass grew.
I think he looks ok at the moment:
SmartieBean09
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A double handful of Hi Fi Mol Free
2 mugs of Lo Cal
50g of linseed
A few Fibre Nuggets (I soak these if she needs any medication)
Salt
Split into 2 feeds per day.
2 mugs of Lo Cal
50g of linseed
A few Fibre Nuggets (I soak these if she needs any medication)
Salt
Split into 2 feeds per day.
Chinchilla
...
TB - nothing but on very good grazing. (And as many sneaky handfuls of pony nuts as he can beg lol) but admittedly gets a rug in bad weather because he's a wuss.
Fatty mares (12hh and 15hh) - nothing, in semi bare paddock, maybe just over an acre in size. Muzzled sometimes too according to weather and the state of their waistlines!
Shetland - 1/3 scoop alfa a oil, handful of pony nuts, prascend, blackberries. Treats ad lib because he's starting to look his age now sadly and has roam of 5 acres. (It's fenced, but he ignores them, and we've given up trying at this point lol).
None in any sort of work. Unless being cute is work.
Fatty mares (12hh and 15hh) - nothing, in semi bare paddock, maybe just over an acre in size. Muzzled sometimes too according to weather and the state of their waistlines!
Shetland - 1/3 scoop alfa a oil, handful of pony nuts, prascend, blackberries. Treats ad lib because he's starting to look his age now sadly and has roam of 5 acres. (It's fenced, but he ignores them, and we've given up trying at this point lol).
None in any sort of work. Unless being cute is work.
DabDab
Thinks the luddites had a point...
Mine get one feed per day.
For the two horses:
1.5 x square scoops of soaked volume alpenmash
1 x cup of linseed
Salt
Vit e
Handful of hay cobs given around work.
For the pony:
Handful type amount of alpenmash
Sprinkle of linseed
Salt
The odd hay cob
Other than that they are on not particularly good fields, with hay chucked in if they seem hungry. When in the horses have as much hay as they'll eat, and the pony gets scraps to pick through.
For the two horses:
1.5 x square scoops of soaked volume alpenmash
1 x cup of linseed
Salt
Vit e
Handful of hay cobs given around work.
For the pony:
Handful type amount of alpenmash
Sprinkle of linseed
Salt
The odd hay cob
Other than that they are on not particularly good fields, with hay chucked in if they seem hungry. When in the horses have as much hay as they'll eat, and the pony gets scraps to pick through.
C1airey
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Twice daily:
Bailey’s No.14
Speedibeet
Handful of plain oat straw chop
He’s a gangly WB, 8yo, about 17hh. He's in during the day with 5kg hay, out overnight on grazing which is on the turn (although this week’s rain should rejuvenate things).
He rarely finishes his haynet and spends his days flat-out and snoring. When he’s upright, he’s in light work. He looks spot-on at the moment.
Bailey’s No.14
Speedibeet
Handful of plain oat straw chop
He’s a gangly WB, 8yo, about 17hh. He's in during the day with 5kg hay, out overnight on grazing which is on the turn (although this week’s rain should rejuvenate things).
He rarely finishes his haynet and spends his days flat-out and snoring. When he’s upright, he’s in light work. He looks spot-on at the moment.
Peter7917
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Summer; Nothing as a general rule, when they come in to be ridden they may get a tiny handful of cheap chaff
Winter: chaff, sugar beet and a cheap version of fast fibre.
Winter: chaff, sugar beet and a cheap version of fast fibre.