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| I have a really small 3 y/o filly. She is just being started this year due to a broken bone last year, which required surgery. We just pulled her out of the winter pasture and decided to measure her... she is only 13.3 hands. Her sire is 15 hands and her dam is around 14.3 or 15 hands...
I feel like she is missing something in her diet - Any supplement recommendations?
I am going to make sure she has premium feed, but not sure if there is something more I can do for her. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Mis_Trev - 2016-04-08 4:47 PM I have a really small 3 y/o filly. She is just being started this year due to a broken bone last year, which required surgery. We just pulled her out of the winter pasture and decided to measure her... she is only 13.3 hands. Her sire is 15 hands and her dam is around 14.3 or 15 hands...
I feel like she is missing something in her diet - Any supplement recommendations?
I am going to make sure she has premium feed, but not sure if there is something more I can do for her.
Do you have a picture that you can post? |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2016-04-08 4:26 PM Mis_Trev - 2016-04-08 4:47 PM I have a really small 3 y/o filly. She is just being started this year due to a broken bone last year, which required surgery. We just pulled her out of the winter pasture and decided to measure her... she is only 13.3 hands. Her sire is 15 hands and her dam is around 14.3 or 15 hands...
I feel like she is missing something in her diet - Any supplement recommendations?
I am going to make sure she has premium feed, but not sure if there is something more I can do for her. Do you have a picture that you can post?
I dont currently and won't likely as the weather is going to get bad. I probably wont be able to get pictures until beginning of next week.
Is there something in specific you are looking for? |
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Location: the end of the rainbow | Total Health Enhancement Muscle Mass |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | willrodeo4food - 2016-04-08 4:42 PM Total Health Enhancement Muscle Mass
If she is lacking in anything, Muscle Mass should fix her up. Bob, the company owner, says it best- Muscle Mass is a great everyday complete supplement that helps support increase lean muscle, while adding weight, increasing water intake, stamina and promotes a faster recovery time. Muscle Mass is a great supplement for young horse development, natural ingredients help maximize your horse’s full potential and bring your hard keeper to a healthy weight. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | What is her diet? |
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Location: Texas | I really like Muscle Mass. It helped our gelding really fill out. Not sure about getting any height out of it. Have you done that string measurement thing to predict height? I have friends that swear by it. You can search Youtube for the instructions. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Mis_Trev - 2016-04-08 5:31 PM Southtxponygirl - 2016-04-08 4:26 PM Mis_Trev - 2016-04-08 4:47 PM I have a really small 3 y/o filly. She is just being started this year due to a broken bone last year, which required surgery. We just pulled her out of the winter pasture and decided to measure her... she is only 13.3 hands. Her sire is 15 hands and her dam is around 14.3 or 15 hands...
I feel like she is missing something in her diet - Any supplement recommendations?
I am going to make sure she has premium feed, but not sure if there is something more I can do for her. Do you have a picture that you can post?
Is there something in specific you are looking for?
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| barrelracr131 - 2016-04-08 6:02 PM What is her diet?
As of right now she's just getting alfalfa hay. For the winter she was turned out in a grass pasture (literally just pulled her out). |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | She needs balanced minerals. If you are just feeding the hay I would get a mineral tub for her at least. Hopefully some more experience breeders will chime in. |
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| Would I be over supplementing her if I gave THE Muscle Mass and a mineral tub? Also, what brand of mineral tub is recommended?
Thank you for all your responses!!! I am definitely going to be ordering something in the next day or two... just want to make sure I get the best thing for her.  |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Mis_Trev - 2016-04-10 5:52 PM Would I be over supplementing her if I gave THE Muscle Mass and a mineral tub? Also, what brand of mineral tub is recommended? Thank you for all your responses!!! I am definitely going to be ordering something in the next day or two... just want to make sure I get the best thing for her.
Yes she would probably be getting too much and it would be a waste. Mineral tubs are often full of molassass and if not, the horses often won't eat them. Just really look at ingredients. Cheap usually means cheap byproducts to get the protein levels they promise on the label. Yet horses can't absorb most all synthetic vitamins & minerals. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Here is my yearling filly-official the middle of May. She gets free choice grass hay, 1lb of Ultium Growth and 1/2 scoop of THE Muscle Mass yearling formula. Picture was taken in February so roughly 9 months old.
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| wyoming barrel racer - 2016-04-10 6:16 PM Here is my yearling filly-official the middle of May. She gets free choice grass hay, 1lb of Ultium Growth and 1/2 scoop of THE Muscle Mass yearling formula. Picture was taken in February so roughly 9 months old.
She is super cute! I am pretty much sold on THE MM! |
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Location: South Central Florida | We bought a filly once that was 22 months old, Sight unseen. The owner had been sick, and forced to turn her out shortly after she turned 1. I felt she was really stunted when I saw her, she was only 12.2, but a year younger than yours.
We put mineral blocks out in the pasture, good grass 24/7 and poured the feed to her. She started growing immediately. She wasn't skinny when we got her, just small.
She maxed out at just over 14.2 and very musceled. But as soon as we started feeding her twice a day she started growing.
I always believed she would have been a bit taller had she not been stunted, but she finished out well proportioned and a very nice strong mare. She is 12 now.
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| Swannranch - 2016-04-12 10:08 AM We bought a filly once that was 22 months old, Sight unseen. The owner had been sick, and forced to turn her out shortly after she turned 1. I felt she was really stunted when I saw her, she was only 12.2, but a year younger than yours.
We put mineral blocks out in the pasture, good grass 24/7 and poured the feed to her. She started growing immediately. She wasn't skinny when we got her, just small.
She maxed out at just over 14.2 and very musceled. But as soon as we started feeding her twice a day she started growing.
I always believed she would have been a bit taller had she not been stunted, but she finished out well proportioned and a very nice strong mare. She is 12 now.
This makes me feel better! We have good grass in front of her now 24/7. She is also getting a alfalfa morning and night. I was going to give her grain and I am debating on my options. Where I am at I can get: Total Equine, Triple Crown Complete, Purina, or Safechoice. Of course for each option there are always good and bad reviews lol. |
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Location: In the wrong place at the wrong time | I fed mine Ultium Growth until about 2 months ago when I slowly started switching him over to Total Equine.
I feed twice a day he's on free choice pasture and gets orchard grass hay. He's almost 3 and stands 15 hands at the withers and 15.2 at the hip so he's still growing but he looks really good.
Good luck with your's.
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