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help with horse's weight!?
Okay,
I have a 6 yr old 14.3 Appendix mare who I gotten about a month and half ago. When I got her she was underweight. Since owning her she has gained about 70lbs. To me she's not filling out , only in her belly. I'm feeding her Seminole Blue Ribbon 10 Sweet feed its a 10% protein and 6% fat, Seminole Gold Chance 10 pelleted feed its also a 10/6. She gets 1 quart of the sweet feed and 1 quart of the pelleted feed in the morning and night. So she gets 4 quarts a day. Plus on top of that she gets about 1 quart of alfalfa cubes and about a handful of whole corn with her feed twice a day. Oh and my horses are on a round bale of coastal hay 24/7. Is there something I should add or take out of her feed, or is there something I'm doing wrong? I just really need help!
I'm in California and if I have a horse who's starting to look a bit "ribby" or I've purchased some rack of bones, I go out and buy a 50LB sack of A&M (Ground alfafa and molasses) (In the mid west they use beet pulp BUT I've been informed that you HAVE to add water to it or it will swell in a horse's belly causing colic), dump it into a tub or feeder in the horse's stall, then top it with some rolled barley corn that is mixed with corn oil and apple cider vinegar. (I feed a 3LB coffee can of the barley corn mixture once a day.) The horse will normally devour the first couple of bags of A&M, but then they will slack off as they get used to it (Never had an issue with colic or founder)...
I haven't fed oats or any mixed feed in decades, basically because I've had running horses and TBs I'm trying to keep quiet, so I feed the rolled barley corn mixture to them for weight, NOT heat.
I also give my horses a hot bran mash twice a week with a 1/2 CUP of apple cider vinegar and corn oil (I can mix the barleycorn into it.). I feed 1/2 a 3 LB coffee can of red wheat flakey bran and add enough water to it so that it looks like oatmeal in consistancy.
I make sure that they get 2 flakes of alfafa hay per feeding.
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