Not eating his breakfast

[dcp]

For the past week or so Charlie has not been eating all his breakfast. I cut it right down but he's still not eating it and only picking the apples and carrots out. I'm thinking he just doesn't need it but I want him to have breakfast as all the other horses do. Could I just feed him apples and carrots? Someone suggested spliting his tea and breakfast but tbh I don't want his expensive balancer and supplements going to waste everday.

He isn't getting alot of food. He gets 4 sections of haylage overnight which he never finishes for tea its
3/4 scoop of chaff, 500grams balancer, respiratory suppl, garlic, cider vinegar

breakfast
1/4 scoop chaff, resp suppl, garlic, cider vinager

He is a good weight not skinny anyway 574kg (I'm sure that was what it was)

[eventerbabe]

if he doesn't want brekky then cut it out. the weather is getting much warmer and the grass is coming through so theres lots more to eat in the fields. if you want just give him the chopped up veg for brekky, take out any chaff etc. :)

[hedgehunter]

heya,

Dont worry about it. During the summer we sometimes (depending in what work your horse is doing) only give the horses on our yard just a carrot meal with supplements, it sounds silly I knw , but its a meal just as good as any other. :p also fresh grass is coming through and the horses are stuffing there bellys with it, so they cant eat any more when they get in.

[becs]

Since the grass has started to come thro', our NF has left his 16+! Unbelieveable for him, lover of fine feeds.

Ours have always been picky over chaff ("is that all you can offer me?") and way prefer grass above all else. So if he's on good grass, I wouldn't worry (all else being well).

[dcp]

So for a 15.3ish TB how does this sound?

AM 2 apples 1 carrot
PM 1/2 scoop chaff, 500grms balancer, 2 scoops garlic, 2 scoops resp suppl, apple cider vinegar

He is in a stubble field at the moment but I think there is a little grass coming through. He also gets haylage in the field and plenty of haylage at night.

[teabiscuit]

i've no experience of feeding balencer, but if he looks well, then you're getting it right. the old horsemen used to feed by eye- they judged how much feed a horse should get by his condition and its still the best way to do it, but it takes practice and they used to be around horses all the time. modern horse owners don't get that sort of practice so they rely on feed charts etc which is good as a guide, but the best guide is the horses condition and charlie sounds perfect.