What to feed a barrel on legs Sec A pony.

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I am used to feeding large WB types and acquired a Sec A pony a couple of years ago. Now all has been well until this winter and he looking a little rotund.

What do you guys feed your smallies ?
 
Mine gets 2.5kg dry hay a day, 300g Hi Fi Lite and 5 EquiBites. He's out on poor grazing for 8-10 hours a day. (he's a Welsh A, has had numerous health problems and he's 8 years old)
 
Not a lot:D mine gets limited(very) grass and haylage when in overnight, no feed at all and she still looks rotund, they really do live on next to nothing even in the winter.
 
Virtually nothing 'cos I'm mean! :D

No breakfast.
Out all day on fairly limited grass.
Tea - Handful of HiFi lite and half handful of hi fibre nuts - really just so I can give him his happy tummy and so he wants to come in!
Overnight in stable - one section of high fibre haylage (he sometimes still has some left in the morning, but not much).

These are maintenance quantities - he stays fairly stable weightwise all year on this. He's in lead rein work 1 or 2 times a week and is 20 years old.

Hope that helps.
 
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2% of bodyweight made up of half hay and half straw. Handful of unmolassed beet and chaff if others are being fed.
 
I think this is where i'm going wrong.

He has a 4 acre field with his two friends and hay aswell and then whatever sneaky mouthful he gets when his friends have breakfast.

He needs separating at feed time I think and a small paddock of his own in the spring.

Thanks all.
 
BBH said:
I think this is where i'm going wrong.

He has a 4 acre field with his two friends and hay aswell and then whatever sneaky mouthful he gets when his friends have breakfast.

He needs separating at feed time I think and a small paddock of his own in the spring.

Thanks all.
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That sounds sensible. Of course he will tell you that you are starving him, but that's ponies for you. :D
 
Mines not allowed any access to deacent grass due to her laminitis, has a small soaked haynet with small holes at night and has a small square scoop of healthy hooves am and pm and a small scoop of speedibeet in her dinner. She's a little underweight at the mo and that's why she's having the sugarbeet :)
 
BBH said:
I think this is where i'm going wrong.

He has a 4 acre field with his two friends and hay aswell and then whatever sneaky mouthful he gets when his friends have breakfast.

He needs separating at feed time I think and a small paddock of his own in the spring.

Thanks all.
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*chokes*

Mine would be like a barrage balloon on that. I think I'd separate him NOW into a small patch, move it over by a foot each week and give hay and breakfast when the others have theirs. Then he can't really tell you he's starving - although he will try it on!
 
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