Winter Feeding

[Becky'x]

Hi,, just wondering what you lot feed your horses on in the winter to keep there weight on etc.
First winter for our new yearling and want to keep his weight on but dont want him to be to hyper as they wont be out in the field much.

thanks becky

 

[horse4lee]

Hi there,

I have the same issues with wanting to keep the weight on without the "nutty horse" syndrome

I feed mine spillers conditioning fibre for the oils and fibre so it's slow release energy as well as maintaining a healthy gut with good amounts of fibre. As a balncer I use the saracen shape up (but thats for stopping excessive weight gain I hear you say) But it has the recommended vits and mins and it balances the weight gain properties of the Spillers CF.

Always on ad lib hay!

Hope that helps

 

[hannah28]

hiya

my horse is a fairly good doer, our grass is quite good even through winter so my boy is out for about 9 hours then stays in at night and has around 12 lbs of hay. he has two feeds a day: 3 stubbs round scoops of hi-fi origional and 400g of lo-cal balancer and 200g (dry weight) speedi-beet all split between to feeds.

 

[SmartieBean09]

My pony has just began to lose a lot of weight. She lives out and has access to hay but to help with her condition she is now on Spillers Slow Response Cubes which are fantastic and I highly recommend them. She has these with chaff and in the winter I shall introduce sugarbeet and oil and if need be, I will replace her Mollichaff with Alfalfa.