Re: keeping weight on

[Chris Paus <paus@micoks.net>]

WOW. My horse's vet just scolded me yesterday for feeding Star too well! he
gets about a half-pound of oats a  day and a cupful of beet pulp, along
with free choice grass/clover hay. He gets ridden about 3 times a week for
20 to 40 miles total. Dr. Drew said lStar could stand to lose 50 to 100
pounds! Maybe we could transfer some of it to Tony!

chris

At 03:51 PM 3/5/98 -0600, Tina Hicks wrote:
>I need some ideas....Tony does not maintain his weight well
>when being ridden seriously and my spring ride schedule is
>more intensive than I've done before - I'm worried about him
>carrying enough weight into his rides. Part of it is
>temperment - he stresses over anything :) so he always drops
>weight hauling to a ride tho he's an experienced hauler. The
>other part of it is he's an angular built horse so he's
>gonna tend to show some "angles" when he gets fit. 
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>*However* even with all that I want him a little rounder
>than he is now going into the rides.
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>He's on 8lbs corn/oats and 2 buckets of beet pulp per day
>split between 2 feedings. I'm not real comfortable putting
>too much more grain in him and I don't think he'll eat any
>more salad <g>. He's on Excel vitamins, probiotic, biotin,
>full turnout, and grass hay.  Not currently on corn oil tho
>I have had him on it - didn't see a tremendous amt of
>difference with his weight while on it.
>
>What is the current wisdom on complete pelleted feeds for
>weight maintenance? What about Equine Senior?
>
>Comments/thoughts welcome privately or to the list
>
>Tina
>Tony - a little too svelte these days
>hickst@nichols.com
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