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The hay is too high in protein for a mature, working horse.  Try to find 
another, lower protein hay to substitute for at least half his ration. 
Oat, grass, Teff, Timothy, even a late cutting or flowering lower 
protein alfalfa - anything to reduce the total protein percentage in his 
forage.

Linda Winkel wrote:
> It's a bermuda hay he gets couple flakes morning and night and is turned 
> out
> on grass for a few hours.
> He also eats beet pulp twice a day about 3 dry cups before soaking it. The
> hay is a bermuda cross not a coastal type hay.. is high in protein about 21
> percent.. He has enough hay offered to him that at times there will stll be
> some there in the morning.


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