So when is ad lib hay too much??
Faran is currently stuffing away 5/6 big thick leafs of hay in 12 hours. I fed him at 6pm last night his bucket feed and a full stuffed haybar of hay with the above in it. When his next door neighbours owner came down this morning at 6am she told me he had nothing left. So she gave him some more 2 leafs I think and his morning feed and there was nothing left when I did his stable (he was turned out at 8am).
Now he has 2 bucket feeds of
Youngstock balancer
Fibrebeet
HiFi chaff
One Am and one Pm and hay and is turned out from 8-4.30/5pm grazing isn’t great at the moment but they are finding something as his poos are green and when I drove past at lunchtime they are grazing.
Now he’s not fat by any stretch of the imagination but he’s not even a year old and he’s eating 1/2 a bale of hay a night now. I’m all for letting them have as much as they want, I’m happy to keep giving him as much as needs be but having had a greedy horse before who wouldn’t leave a round bale until it was gone I don’t want him going the same way.
I’ve put three leafs loose in the haybar and another two in a small holed net to see what we go through tomorrow.
This is him at the moment
Faran is currently stuffing away 5/6 big thick leafs of hay in 12 hours. I fed him at 6pm last night his bucket feed and a full stuffed haybar of hay with the above in it. When his next door neighbours owner came down this morning at 6am she told me he had nothing left. So she gave him some more 2 leafs I think and his morning feed and there was nothing left when I did his stable (he was turned out at 8am).
Now he has 2 bucket feeds of
Youngstock balancer
Fibrebeet
HiFi chaff
One Am and one Pm and hay and is turned out from 8-4.30/5pm grazing isn’t great at the moment but they are finding something as his poos are green and when I drove past at lunchtime they are grazing.
Now he’s not fat by any stretch of the imagination but he’s not even a year old and he’s eating 1/2 a bale of hay a night now. I’m all for letting them have as much as they want, I’m happy to keep giving him as much as needs be but having had a greedy horse before who wouldn’t leave a round bale until it was gone I don’t want him going the same way.
I’ve put three leafs loose in the haybar and another two in a small holed net to see what we go through tomorrow.
This is him at the moment