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FW: [RC] Feed regime - Jim HollandAs Ed points out, the BIG deal is to keep the horse?s gut full?.whatever he wants.? As Angie has frequently pointed out, usually that is what the people who are crewing next to you have, which is obviously better than what you have. <grin> However, there is more to it than WHAT you feed?.it is HOW you feed as well. I feed what my horses are going to have at a ride daily at home?.AND I try to provide a ?similar? situation with regard to WHAT they see at a ride.? I want their gut to see EVERYTHING at home that they see at a ride, including their feeding routine. I feed Alfalfa, but at home only half a pat once a day at as a ?treat?, but I want their gut to see it.? At the ride, they can have all they want. I could leave my guys out 24/7, but I want hay in their diet, so they are in long enough (during the day in the summer and during the night in the winter) every day to eat at least a pat of hay.? (I feed Bermuda exclusively?their pasture is Fescue)? I want their gut to see the Bermuda. They get slurry of soaked, very wet beet pulp mixed with a basic sweet feed every day. (I feed the basic Horseman?s Edge from Purina) I vary how much and how many times a day depending on how hard they are working. Three days prior to the ride, ?Perform ?n Win? gets mixed with the slurry.? Magic also gets Selenium supplement daily. As the ride day approaches, I increase the number of feedings, arriving at a feeding every 4 hours the day before the ride to the horse that?s going, which is how often I feed the night before the ride and on ride day.? (We get up and feed during the night) I want him topped off and sloshing when the ride starts. I continue to add Perform ?n Win to the slurry for two days after the ride and ramp down the slurry feeding the same way I ramped up. If I am out conditioning for more than 3 hours, they get slurry on the trail to simulate away Vet Checks. I periodically feed in the pasture in a flat tub instead of in a bucket in the barn, because that?s what they see at a ride. I want them to ?recognize? that tub. It?s important to remember that a horse loves routine.? The less ?new stuff? he sees at a ride, the more comfortable he will be with that environment. All that said, keep in mind that ?winning? to me is competing against THAT trail on THAT horse on THAT day with his welfare foremost in my mind.? Where he finishes with regard to everyone else is irrelevant.? I want to take home the same horse I brought to the ride. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic Richard T. "Jim" Holland Three Creeks Farm 175 Hells Hollow Drive Blue Ridge, Ga 30513 (706) 258-2830 www.threecreeksarabians.com Callsign KI4BEN ________________________________________ From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sisu West Ranch Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:40 PM To: Kristen A Fisher; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Feed regime My over riding concern is to get and keep the horse's gut full of whatever he/she wants to eat.? ? I normally do not feed any alfalfa at all to my horses.? I am lucky to be able to grow my own MT grass.? It apparently, Se level aside, is a fine forage.? I find that I feed much less concentrates than I did when I fed WI grass and WI hay (Most of the hay had some alfalfa in it) ? Ed Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower Road Victor, MT 59875 ? (406) 642-9640 ? ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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