What do you feed your hunters ?

[emmiec12]

A few questions….

1) What horse do you hunt?
2) Do you feed hay or haylage?
3) What hard feed do your hunters get?
4) How much turn out do they get?

Thanks! :grin:

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

(1) Cobs- selection between 14.3 and 16.2!
(2) Haylage with some hay for the old chap who gets the runs
(3)1 scoop hifi and 1/2 scoop of D&H Country cubes twice a day (per horse)
(4) live out ATM but if we get the stables built this winter then they will be in 6pm til 7 am

 

[Irishcobs]

I'll do me and work.

Me
1) Cob, 15.3hh
2)hay ab lib
3) pony nuts and alfa A oil
4)lives out on good grass
May have to change pony nuts to conditioning nuts this year as she didn't live out last year so not sure if her weight will drop.

Work
1) hunter types (most Irish x) between 16hh-17hh
2)haylage ab lib
3) pony nuts and molllychaff
4) a few hours in the mid of winter a week, more if the weather is better.

 

[spacefaer]

1) What horse do you hunt?
Most of the time, a 17.1 8 yr old tri coloured middleweight

2) Do you feed hay or haylage?
haylage - cheaper and more nutritious. Ad lib

3) What hard feed do your hunters get?
He gets Countrywide stud & conditioning mix - approx 8-10lbs and JustGrass

4) How much turn out do they get?
at the moment, still out at night. Once hunting, out most days for approx 4 hours. Longer than that, he stands by the gate!

 

[sonjafoers]

1) 15hh cob x hackney and 16hh 7/8TB
2) Always bagged haylage
3) Cob gets 1 scoop baileys endurance mix a day plus 1 scoop Baileys competition mix for a bit of sparkle and TB gets 1 scoop baileys endurance mix (great stuff) a day and 1 scoop baileys conditioning cubes to keep her condition. This is durning the hunting season only
4) they are turned out 24/7 for 7 or 8 months a year but in overnight roughly November through to March.

 

[jane1234]

1) What horse do you hunt?
16.1 WB x TB

2) Do you feed hay or haylage?
haylage - as much as he can eat.

3) What hard feed do your hunters get?
Top Spec balancer (fab stuff), 1 scoop Alfa A, 3/4 scoop pasture mix, garlic. Twice a day.

4) How much turn out do they get?
Out all day, in at night.

 

[Steeleydan]

My sister hunts a 14yo 16.1hh ex race horse
He is fed as much haylage as we can get into him
Hard feed- am 1 scoop nuts
pm 1 nuts, 1/2 calm&cond, 1 molichaff calmer
pink powder and coraflex
Turned out as much as possible whatever the weather
He is a funny feeder, anymore than the above he goes on hunger strike, doesnt like any kind of mix not keen on sugar beet. Its a fine line with him and eating, but with the above diet he stays looking well till the end of hunt season.

 

[LouBerry]

1) 15.3 tb
2)haylage usually, sometimes hay
3) graze on, oats/barley mix and pony nuts or mix depending on what we have in. Swapping to Saracen show pencils this year.
4) turned out only couple of hours each day in winter.

 

[JenHunt]

I hunt Ron, a 16.2hh ID x and OH hunts Frank, an 18.2h hannoverian (who belongs to a friend)

Ron gets hay ad lib, speedi beet, alfa a oil, full fat soya, lo-cal.
Ron is turned out 7am to 7pm each day.

Frank gets haylage ad lib, sugar beet, baileys no6, oats and barley.
Frank's turnout depends on the other horses as he bullies everyone except the shetland! and more often than not is turned out with him in the indoor school at their yard for a few hours and then on the horse walker for an hour.

 

[rosie fronfelen]

3/4 ARAB, 17 YEARS YOUNG AND 5 YEAR OLD TROTTER- 16.2. FED HAYLAGE, COOL MIX TWICE DAILY,TURNED OUT AT PRESENT AFTER WORK BUT LATER ON IN PERMANENTLY. HAVE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF WORK, OVER HILL AND DOWN DALE!!

 

[star]

1) What horse do you hunt?
15.2 fine Welsh Cob

2) Do you feed hay or haylage?
hay in the field

3) What hard feed do your hunters get?
Top Spec balancer, Bailey's Outshine, TopSpec CoolCondition cubes, TopSpec Super Conditioning flakes, Alfa-A Oil, Sugar Beet. 2 feeds a day - total of about 5-6kg. He is a neurotic little pony and sweats/stresses off his weight - nightmare to keep condition on, has been on 3kg hard feed a day all throughout the summer!

4) How much turn out do they get?
Out 24/7 well rugged

 

[chestnut cob]

Do I count as have only hunted him 3 times in a year?! Hoping to be out much more regularly this season though.

1. Horse is 17hh IDxTB gelding, MW type

2. Hay or haylage? Hay in summer, just moved on to haylage as our hay is completely crap. Pretty much adlib.

3. What hard feed? Currently just 3/4 scoop of cheapy chaff and a handful of D&H High Fibre Nuts, with his JointFX and electrolytes (before and after hard work) in. He'll stay on this for the time being and I will up the nuts, then add sugar beet if needed later on.

I'm hoping to get out autumn hunting most weekends and then planning on a 6 day package to start with, and will upgrade to full subscription if it works out well.