[its.me.heather]

I'm just being nosey... and if this has been asked recently I apologize...

my mom is always amazed that I don't feed my horses grain... but I do'nt have a need to...

We have excellent hay here... and its cheap... and we have our pastures replanted every five years... so they just eat and eat....

Just wondering if I am an odd ball by not feeding grain?

I did feed grain to my pg mare at the end of her pg and while she was nursing... but aside from that we only use grain for thin horses coming on to put weight on... or maternity reasons...

[showjumper]

Sheera - 1 ouble handful of spillers happy hoof with her laminitus supplement and a few carrots

Mollie - 1 1/2 scoops of mollichop, 1 scoop fibre cubes, so kalm supplement and carrots and 1/2 scoop speedibeet

Ted 1 scoop moli chop, 1/4 scoop speeibeet 1/2 scoop fibre cubes

Elvis - 2 scoops happy hoof, 1 1/2 scoop fibre cubes selenavite e supplement and carrots

Monty - 2 scoops happy hoof, 1 1/2 scoop cool mix, selenavite e supplement carrots and bute

hmmmm, i think thats it!!!

[skysthelimit]

no, yer not an odd ball at all! The horse community is actually trying to get away from feeding "grain" and returning to the more natural forage products hroses should eat.

Mine get fescue hay and pasture along with Purinas Born to Win supplement to blanace their nutritional needs. My growing, pregnant, thin and working horses all get slightly varied amounts of added beet pulp, BOSS and rice bran. Firefly get a joint supplement because her back end is TERRIBLE without it and my cushonoid pony get Chaste tree berries and the source SR supplement. ~Brit

[Lou3]

yeah we feed actual "grain" as little as possible. Most of ours eat grass hay ad lib, alfalfa chaff at "feed times", and are supplemented with sugar beet and a ration balancer (blue chip) if they need extra calories. None of em are underweight.

[its.me.heather]

Originally Posted by showjumper

Sheera - 1 ouble handful of spillers happy hoof with her laminitus supplement and a few carrots

Mollie - 1 1/2 scoops of mollichop, 1 scoop fibre cubes, so kalm supplement and carrots and 1/2 scoop speedibeet

Ted 1 scoop moli chop, 1/4 scoop speeibeet 1/2 scoop fibre cubes

Elvis - 2 scoops happy hoof, 1 1/2 scoop fibre cubes selenavite e supplement and carrots

Monty - 2 scoops happy hoof, 1 1/2 scoop cool mix, selenavite e supplement carrots and bute

hmmmm, i think thats it!!!

holy cow.... I don't even know what any of that is..... aside fromthe carrots of course :-)

amazing how different everyone can be....of course our needs are different as well... our hay is so rich that I have to even limit that - pasture is free for all though :-)

[royalrox]

no its good if you don't have to feed grain, ost horses at my barn get half a scoop of pellets with a little beet pulp, but Royal is a REALLY hard keeper so he gets the following twice a day:
-1 1/2 scoops beet pulp
-1 scoop pellets
-1/4 scoop sweet
-3/4 cup corn oil
-weight builder supplement
and free choice hay so yea but if your horss don't need it that's wonderful for you!

[BettyBootsy]

One on Born to Win and all if our pastures are improved. Another on Mare Maintance and everyone else is on Strategy. And Grostrong minerals. Free choice Timothy/Alfalfa in the winter and 2 flakes of Alfalfa a day each.

[JBandRio]

No grain here! I feed some combination of alfalfa pellets, beet pulp, rice bran, and black oil sunflower seeds, along with a vitamin/mineral supplement, and additional minerals as necessary.

[chocchipcookie]

I didn't feed anything except hay/grass for the first six months. But now we have no grass and she is in work yes I do.
So that's hay, oaten chaff, green chaff and pellets.

[Andaletta]

I Feed....

1 scoop Plain Chop
half scoop Mollichop
1 and half scoop of Speedibeet
2 handfuls of horse and pony cubes
tbsp of Garlic

twice a day

she has free choice of lots of hay too x