[RC] Spot-on tick applications for endurance horses - Nell Lindquist

No you're not.  I just calculated how much our herd of 7 is eating per day, based upon how long a round bale lasts them, and the known weight of the round bale.  It's fed in a ring, so there's almost no waste.  According to my calculations, they're eating 22-27 lbs per day (grass hay, stored indoors till fed).  They're out on 10 acres, and are doing a lot of "grazing" as well, but there's not much out there right now due to the season.  Like Kat's horses, they all eat more at rides than at home, especially my younger gelding...it's hard to keep hay in front of him!  My husband jokes that we need to take a round bale to the ride just for Sundance!  LOL

 

Dawn Carrie, Texas

 

On 2/6/08, k s swigart <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the Eleanor Kellon article she metions that horses can get their
daily maintenance needs of chloride from 8.5 pounds of hay or 5.5 pounds
if supplemeneted with enough salt to meet their sodium needs.

Since I feed my horses between 20 and 30 pounds of hay a day (it takes
them about four days to go through about a 100+ pound bale of grass plus
the 5-8 pounds of alfalfa that he gets on top of that) I am having
trouble seeing how this would be a problem.  At endurance rides, in
addition to having a few days worth of hay in their gi tract, they will
consume more than they normally do at home.

Am I the only one who feeds this much hay to my horses?

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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