I have a 15.1 aged cob mare and a 15.1+ youngster (the 'plus' is because he is still growing!!).
2 years ago my mare was VERY overweight and with careful feeding has lost 100kg.
I am being 'prompted' into feeding haylage, which I thought would be too rich for my mare and would give me weight control problems - I do not want her to become a fatty again! She is a very good doer - she is in every night (to take her off the grass for a few hours) and she has an evening bucket feed of 1 tea-cup of Dengie Good-Doer, one tablespoon of 16+, garlic and her Glucosamine (she's arthritic - well she is 25) and half an apple. These amounts are genuine - she only has this feed so I can give her the Glucosamine. She has per night 2 standard size (which are quite large) Feedmark Anti-Vice haynets full of hay - if she runs out of hay she'll kick the stable walls down.
So, the question is, if I change her on to haylage will I still be able to give her enough haylage to last the whole night without her putting on loads of weight????? What are the benefits of feeding haylage?
Please any info or help will be appreciated.
Janice
2 years ago my mare was VERY overweight and with careful feeding has lost 100kg.
I am being 'prompted' into feeding haylage, which I thought would be too rich for my mare and would give me weight control problems - I do not want her to become a fatty again! She is a very good doer - she is in every night (to take her off the grass for a few hours) and she has an evening bucket feed of 1 tea-cup of Dengie Good-Doer, one tablespoon of 16+, garlic and her Glucosamine (she's arthritic - well she is 25) and half an apple. These amounts are genuine - she only has this feed so I can give her the Glucosamine. She has per night 2 standard size (which are quite large) Feedmark Anti-Vice haynets full of hay - if she runs out of hay she'll kick the stable walls down.
So, the question is, if I change her on to haylage will I still be able to give her enough haylage to last the whole night without her putting on loads of weight????? What are the benefits of feeding haylage?
Please any info or help will be appreciated.
Janice