What exactly does everyone feed their horse?

Nout! Having said that she's 4, and any food so far has sent her nuts. She's just on grass 24/7, and is never short of extra energy!

When my other mare was competing, she was on 1/4 scoop of Competition Mix, Hi Fi Chaff, Vegetable Oil, Garlic, Cortaflex, she's out due to injury and gets a bit of chaff, with her supplements.
 
At least 12 hours grazing and ad-lib hay when in at night.

One of them gets nothing else apart from a vits/min lick.

One gets a small amount of Spillers Cool Chaff with pink powder once a day.

The other one gets Spillers Slow Release Competition Cubes and Conditioning Fibre as he is a veteran and loses condition easily. He can also be very excitable - I was recommended this feed by someone on here (TGM) and I have to say...fabulous- he's never looked better or been more relaxed since I changed.
 
my cobs on a scoop of hifi lite, half a scoop ride and relax and 2 little scoops magnitude with assorted veg - mostly carrots
 
at this time of year our get a handul of lo-cal and a handful of hifi lite just to make sure they're getting eveything.... they're out 24/7 on moderate to good grass. they come in during the day if it's hot.

in the winter they are out 12 hours (unless the weather is foul) on moderate to poor grass. One is hunting and one is just a fairy so they get ad lib haylage 24/7,
over night ad lib speedibeet, then the following split into 2 feeds - 2kg of alfa a oil, 3kg readymash extra, 1kg full fat soya meal, 300g stud balancer.

Why? because it's high oil and low cereal/starch content making sure they keep the condition without going loopy.
 
At this time of year:
Grass, hay.
Broodies are on Stud mix.
Ancients are on Veteran mix.
Stallion gets oats.

Winter:
(or from whenever the snow stays, could be October, could be December, through to at least end of April)
Ad-lib Hay.
Soaked oats
Alfa/timothy cubes.
Veteran mix for the ancients.
 
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My Horse is on a full (well, nearly) non starch diet as of 2 weeks.

He gets 1 and a half "cup" of stud balancer
Cup of outshine
1 cup oats daily, and built up to 2 cups oats before a show
1/3 scoop of alfalfa

He also gets flax oil and Copa Ireland LiquiFlex :)

And soaked hay at night and he is out with good quality grass for about 6 hours a day :)

He looks like a different horse already, and has a spring in his step I havent felt for a while!
 
My Tb is given as much forage (grass hay and haylage) as he'll eat. He never has an empty hay bar.

In the summer he has 2 small feeds consisting of
Alfalfa
conditioning cubes (hardly any - just a quarter of a scoop)
Caron oil
farriers formula
Cortaflex HA
electrolytes

In the winter he has 2 very large feeds consisting of
Alfalfa
conditioning cubes
winergie
Caron oil
farriers formula
Cortaflex HA
carrots
I also keep him very well rugged, and he is never cold.

As you see from my sig, this diet keeps him nicely covered
 
In the summer, just a token of Fast Fibre and Happy Hoof and only because the other horses still get fed. She is out 24/7 on good grazing.

In the winter she drops quite a bit of weight and so she will have Speedibeet, chaff and nuts - either Spillers slow response or D&H Staypower as they are both low in starch but high in energy,and oil. She is out 24/7 in the same paddock so grass can be a bit poor. She has access to adlib good quality meadow hay.

I will also add a good pre/probiotic. If she needs extra calories then I will add linseed to the above.
 
I have two natives who are both a little porky ATM so they just have a couple of handfuls of Healthy Hooves each. They also have with it a carrot and an appe sliced up and any available veg peelings and I sometimes add some salt.

In the winter they will be out 24/7 and I will feed them hay, Alfa A, sugar beet, maintenance cubes and oats with some pink powder as they will only be getting a small amount of concentrate feed as both are good doers and we have plenty of grass all year round.

I have tried a pellet balancer before and despite the manufacturer's claims about it being cost effective I actually found it rather expensive.
 
At the minute, Kelly (14.2hh 16 y/o rescue mare (so no idea about breed) but is lami prone) is on one scoopful of Happy Hoof, with garlic, seaweed, spearmint and cider vinegar. She also has an equi ball with 3 or 4 treats in as the vet said it was important to keep her moving after her recent severe bout of lami - and she chases the ball round for hours! :) We tried a veteran mix with her but think it may have helped in bringing the lami on....
She has one hour of turn out per day with a grass muzzle on, and 2 full haynets, one in the morning (6am) and one at night (5pm) and a half one when she comes in from the field. She also has a salt lick in her stable for as and when she wants it.
We think she's looking good for her age on this feed and routine!

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Mine's out 24/7 on restricted grazing, I feed hay and a small amount of Fast Fibre with Naf Slimline added, although may change the Slimline to Benevit.

Winter is the same, but may add Hi Fi lite and sugar beet if needed.
 
14.3hh arab gets: -

Hard Feed: -

3kg of Baileys Top Line Conditioning Cubes
1kg (dry weight) of Alfabeet
(split into two feeds)
approx. 20mls of Corn Oil per feed
3 scoops of Pink Powder in evening feed

A few slices of Horsehage green bag haylage at night in stable and a big bucket of Happy Hoof (about 4 Stubbs scoops).

There is no grass, it's all been burnt by the Sun!
 
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Frances144 said:
Erm...200 acres of grass, rough grassland.

Silage if it snows.

A feed lick as supplement if they are foaling or are in foal.

A salt lick occasionally!

No one is thin!

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I love that last photo - should be sent to photography compo!
 
F4F + carrot.... access to salt lick.

Hay - don't care what kind.

Grass. 12hrs on, 12hrs off. (summer)

In winter in 20hours, out 4. Not nearly enough but not enough ground and have cows so in winter need to keep all hooves off so can fatten cattle in summer. Needs must :)
 
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Mine is out over night, adlib meadow hay (steamed) during the day and fed 2kg of Pure Feeds Company 'Pure working' over two feeds.

She looks amazing and is sooo calm!
 
Well, I'm in the States so I don't know how much of what I feed will be familiar but here goes.

I have a 5 year old TB mare who is kept in a stall. She gets a daily turnout and exercise but the turnout is not in any area with grass (in fact, right now in my part of California, there really isn't any grass since it gets quite dry in the summer). So...


Grass hay in the morning
Alfalfa midday
Alfalfa in the evening

Purina Enrich 12 which is a forage based pelleted ration balancer. She was originally on Purina Strategy but she got very hot on it and had a mild colic once. As a former racer, my vet thinks she probably has ulcers to one degree or another, so a forage based pellet is better than a grain based one. Also the extra alfalfa she gets keeps her gut healthy.

She also gets a handful of bran daily plus a hoof supplement (Farrier's Formula) containing Biotin and other hoof-specific nutrients. Her hooves aren't horrible but they aren't great either. The supplement has helped them a lot.

I give her 2 ounces of Aloe Vera juice daily, also recommended for horses with ulcer.

She gets a psyllium supplement once a week as it's quite sandy here and it helps keep her system clear and prevent sand colic.

And she gets a ridiculous amount of carrots and one horse cookie after every workout. :)
 
I have at the moment a Section A that I can't keep weight off... and a DWB that I struggle to keep weight on.

The Sec A gets - a starvation paddock with stuff all grass on it. A bit of really poor 2 year old hay well soaked and 1/2 a scoop of hifi lite 2xa day when the other horses get fed. Oh and some equivite.

The DWB Gets - 3 acre grassy Cheshire plain field (all to himself), as much top quality horsehage as he wants and 4 hard feeds (2 slobbermash, and 2 'showshine' mollichaff, with barley and pasture mix).

Blitz
 
I'm on small yard just my 2yr old and 2 very ancient horses

They are out 24/7 until hopefully almost October time then will be out from about 7.30 am till 4pm

We have heaps of grass that we strip graze and they get haynets hung up am and pm and a hard feed am and pm to.

My boy gets 2 equal feeds of a scoop of D & H safe and sound with a half or so cup of top spec.
They also have access to mineral/salt licks
no idea what the 2 oldies get fed, although it seems a hell of a lot more than my chap.
 
heidirusso said:
Hi,

Just wondering what everyone feeds their horse and why???

And did you have them on something which didn't work before and have now reached a happy conclusion to what is best to feed??

(and amount of time at grass and quality)

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I think you should have also asked what work they do as that will alter what they are fed or should do. lol:)
 
SUMMER:
Eventer horse: 3/4 scoop d&h comp mix, 1 scoop alfa-a oil, 1/2 scoop speedi-beet, 1 mini scoop d&h 'stroppy mare'
Hack/PC pony: 1 handful alfa-a oil (very wet because hes had choke)
Both: ad-lib grass + salt lick

Winter:
Eventer horse: 1 scoop d&h comp mix, 1 scoop alfa-a oil, 1/2 scoop speedi-beet, 1 mini scoop d&h 'stroppy mare'
Hack/PC pony: 1 handful alfa-a oil
Both: 2ish carrots a day, ad-lib hay and whatever grass they get in the daytime + salt lick

ETA: horse used to have pasture mix but lacked impulsion in flatwork so on instructors advice switched to comp mix
 
I've been through just about every feed on the market to help my old boy, and have finally found feeds that work for all my numpties!

Roy: 17.2hh Hanoverian x KWPN 24yrs VERY poor doer -->
- Turned out every day, no matter what the weather, from 7am til 8pm in winter, and 7am til 10pm in summer. On fairly good grass with sandy soil, and a bale of haylage out in the field at all times.
- Had access to haylage 24/7
- Diamond Condition and Show Cubes
- Mollichaff Showshine
- Kwikbeet
- Blue Chip Original
- Corn Oil
- Nobute
- Apples and Carrots
this is fed twice a day all year round and works very well for him

Everyone else is on Red Mills Cool N Cooked Mix and Mollichaff Showshine, with Blue Chip, Kiwkbeet etc. added as necessary. The lami prone pony has a lick all the time to keep minerals going in. Very complicated, but it all works well for us!
 
Barney 16.0hh 8 year old, medium work RC novice dressage, show jumping, intro level BE, hacking, schooling etc is out at night and in during the day with a small amount of hay (he eats his hay then goes to sleep for the day!). In at night in winter with more hay. Hay in the field in winter if it's snowy or frosty, otherwise we have a reasonable amount of grass. Feed one and a half scoops Winergy Equilibrium .(mixture of low and medium energy depending on work) twice a day with some garlic powder. I'm really pleased with the Winergy, he looks fab and it keeps his temperament fairly consistent. He tries to supplement his diet with eating human beings but this is not generally encouraged!
 
Mine has less than no grass and we cannot get hold of any hay, so she's on ad-lib haylage, then she gets a scoop of Alfa Lite, a scoop of Allen & Page Fast Fibre, and two mugs of Bailey's Lo Cal all split between two feeds. In the next week or two she's moving onto better grazing so the haylage will be scrapped. She's currently a bit too skinny.
 
full english washed down with a cup of splosh oh sorry you meant the horse didnt you lol
mini shetland gets starvation paddock a kiddies beaker of fast fibre and soaked hay if she is lucky she might get a carrot but have to consider the sugar level im very good at putting my shetty on a diet but not myself weight watchers here i come but not today maybe one day never
 
flowerlady said:
I think you should have also asked what work they do as that will alter what they are fed or should do. lol:)
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Well I was actually more curious of the brands used... But also wanted to know about how much grass everyone has at the moment too as this is something i am reading (yes, I am that sad) about at the moment... But yes, that would of been a good but then I would want to know age and breed etc .. lol

XXX
 
Starzaan said:
I've been through just about every feed on the market to help my old boy, and have finally found feeds that work for all my numpties!

Roy: 17.2hh Hanoverian x KWPN 24yrs VERY poor doer -->
- Turned out every day, no matter what the weather, from 7am til 8pm in winter, and 7am til 10pm in summer. On fairly good grass with sandy soil, and a bale of haylage out in the field at all times.
- Had access to haylage 24/7
- Diamond Condition and Show Cubes
- Mollichaff Showshine
- Kwikbeet
- Blue Chip Original
- Corn Oil
- Nobute
- Apples and Carrots
this is fed twice a day all year round and works very well for him

Everyone else is on Red Mills Cool N Cooked Mix and Mollichaff Showshine, with Blue Chip, Kiwkbeet etc. added as necessary. The lami prone pony has a lick all the time to keep minerals going in. Very complicated, but it all works well for us!
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Just out of curiosity with your turnout times, do you ride then turn back out again and then bring in at 10pm as an example? X
 
Have always fed once a day and Horse lives out 24/7 even in winter (and we had 3' snow for over 3 months). I feed 3 mugs Baileys lo-cal, 1 mug Baileys outshine and a scoop of chaff. In winter it's ad-lib hay taken from grazing fields to replace grass. I've owned 3 Horses, all been the same, and all have improved on this. I also have a salt lick freely available - the himalayan one.
 
Genie in summer - Hard feed - Handful of happy hoof, half handful of coolmix, biotin, vits and mins supplement, garlic, a carrot. On grass at night (pretty sparse at the moment but they get regular fresh grass), in during the day with one slice of hay in a double holed net.

Genie in winter - Hard feed - Two handfuls of happy hoof, slightly larger half handful of coolmix, same supplements, 1 - 2 carrots depending on size. Out during the day for at least 8 hours, in at night with 2 full but not stuffed nets of hay/haylage mixed.

Titch in summer - Out 24/7 apart from a few days a week when she comes in for a snooze and a munch. Half big scoop of happy hoof, half small scoop of coolmix. Same supplements as Genie.

Titch in winter - we shall see!
 
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