AdeleSK
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Hey,
I have recently got a little crossbreed Yearling. I think he's part cob, but even so he's quite chunky for his age. He has never had hard feed, just hay or haylage and carrots before I bought him. At the moment, he's grazing the dregs of the winter field 8 hours a day, and then stabled with a slow feed net of haylage, with another pile thrown in for breakfast.
What should I do? Keep feeding haylage and restrict his grazing (there is a starvation paddock in the summer field which he will. move to in three weeks for 24/7 turn out) or feed him wet haylage, or buy in hay myself? I'll be far less concerned in a few weeks when he is out grazing 24/7, but for now I'm worried about how quickly he moves through the haylage at night in his stable. Is he at risk of Ulcers? The haynet is double netted but even so he's a little muncher.
Any advice is welcome!
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I have recently got a little crossbreed Yearling. I think he's part cob, but even so he's quite chunky for his age. He has never had hard feed, just hay or haylage and carrots before I bought him. At the moment, he's grazing the dregs of the winter field 8 hours a day, and then stabled with a slow feed net of haylage, with another pile thrown in for breakfast.
What should I do? Keep feeding haylage and restrict his grazing (there is a starvation paddock in the summer field which he will. move to in three weeks for 24/7 turn out) or feed him wet haylage, or buy in hay myself? I'll be far less concerned in a few weeks when he is out grazing 24/7, but for now I'm worried about how quickly he moves through the haylage at night in his stable. Is he at risk of Ulcers? The haynet is double netted but even so he's a little muncher.
Any advice is welcome!
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