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AlexC

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hi, well we rescued a foal 2days ago, hes 5months, welsh section A, we dont know how long he has been away from his mother, we had to take him, we couldnt walk by and let him go to someone else, hes living in obviously, has a stable rug on and its very friendly, already a favourite at the yard, we have ordered foal food from millers, and they said to get "jsut grass" but the lady at the yard said it is to rough for him and says happy hoof would be good?
any help and advice you can share would be great we plan to do in hand showing
i posted on another part and they said post here aswell, he hasnt been out yet, as we want to handle him and let him settle in more 1st and its getting coold so i dont want him getting to cold, he is defo being stabled at night until bout may time
 
I wouldnt be giving a section A much at all if anything feedwise (maybe a handful of chaff to add vits to but no more).
Hay when he is in.
Get him out in the field asap, he can graze all day and come in at night ( and hopefully make a steady friend).
As long as there is some form of shelter in the field he will be fine!
Is he skinny? If not I would be getting that rug off too!
They are seriously hardly little ponies!
 
I think you have been fooled into thinking that your little foal is a delicate little flower......well he isnt!!!
My welshie foals are out, and thats where they shall stay, rugless all winter.
Get his rug off and chuck him out before he has you thinking he needs underfloor heating too!
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hi, he was turned out today with the shetland and was playing, wish i could have seen him, all i got was a text telling me lol,
 
I have a welsh sec D cross foal now 5 1/2 months old, his coat is so thick he sweats just if we have a warm day!!!! He's out 24/7 rugless, with my warmblood 6 month old! Both were gaining weight so now they just have free access to a feedblock in the field and that's it!! I was just giving him chaff and a tiny amount of suregrow but both are fat!! weaning didn't knock them back like we thought it would!! They have good grass and still lots of it! They seriously exist off nothing!!!
 
no rug if he was mine, i have never rugged any foals, they are better with their own coat, it fits perfectly and won't get hooked up on anything!
hay, grass, and balancer would be all that i would feed him, i have fed Baileys Stud Balancer for years to all mine and they love it, the pellets are nice and small for a small mouth, and very very palatable, he'd prob only need about 1/2 a cupful a day anyway as he's so little.
glad to hear you saved him and he's having fun with his new friend, 10/10 to you. what's his name, btw?
 
his show name is swinford pippen,
but he has had leo, rupert, spyro and nw we think mario, cuz he was born in may and its a welsh name, but we dont know yet lol
 
I rescued a young mare two months ago. I went on the Rumbly Tummy Forum for her and got some great answers. She had a foal 5 weeks ago on Tuesday. She was starved and abandoned and no-one knew she was in foal as she was so thin. I had my suspicions and the day the vet was coming to scan her she produced a lovely little colt foal. He is doing very well but does anyone have any advice as to feeding him something more than his mother's milk? She is quite like a little thoroughbred 13.2 1/2hh and probably will not grow anymore. She is two or three years old. I have no idea what the sire is so don't know if he is a horse or a pony. The foal (Finian, Finn for short) is quite big, big ears not pony tiny ears but no idea what he will turn out to be. Everyone has a different idea as to what to feed and the protein percentage. Foal, milk nuggets, 18% foal feed, Bailey's foal food? Any help would be much appreciated.
The advice on no blankets was great as I was about to get a blanket for him. It rains a-lot here in Ireland and I am spending my life putting them in and taking them out. I have no field shelter but have a double foaling stall I have them in so there is room for two. I hate having them in but I didn't think he could be out in the pouring rain at this age. His coat is short and fuzzy not like a horses' winter coat. Any ideas on food and being out in the rain? Thank you
 
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