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Location: PICAYUNE,MS | How much do you feed per feeding a day with feed |
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Location: MD | I'm interested too! I have a horse I bought back recently that wasn't fed very well. His topline is not what it used to be. I have him on Forco good quality orchard, grain, and legging him up. I wanted to add alfalfa pellets to his grain for extra protein and help with bloom. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I feed 1 scoop (approx 3 pounds) in the morning. They get their blue bonnet omega in the evening |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | It depends on how much forage a horse gets throughout the day. Horses are supposed to have a certain amount of forage (grass, hay etc) per day per body weight.
Mine get 5 pounds for the mare and 8 for the gelding each because of free choice hay, pasture, etc.My gelding is also more active and taller than my mare.
ETA: I don't feed any pelleted feed. Only hay and hay pellets.
Edited by IRunOnFaith 2015-04-09 3:25 PM
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Location: Lala Land | I feed 1.5 lb of soaked pellets morning and night with oats, Omega Max from Triple Crown. He is also on free choice coastal hay and gets a flake of Alfalfa at night. |
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Location: PICAYUNE,MS | She gets 2 scoops of strategy healthy edge twice a day with a lot of hay,I wanted to add some alfalfa pellets to help gain some weight |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | BLING_IT_ON - 2015-04-09 4:06 PM She gets 2 scoops of strategy healthy edge twice a day with a lot of hay,I wanted to add some alfalfa pellets to help gain some weight
Maybe start with 2-3 pounds for a week or two and adjust from there?  |
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Location: PICAYUNE,MS | IRunOnFaith - 2015-04-09 4:09 PM
BLING_IT_ON - 2015-04-09 4:06 PM She gets 2 scoops of strategy healthy edge twice a day with a lot of hay,I wanted to add some alfalfa pellets to help gain some weight
Maybe start with 2-3 pounds for a week or two and adjust from there?
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I have been feeding this for almost a year now. I have a plastic feed scoop, the kind you get from the farm store, and I feed 1 lb a day and that measures to the 2 qt line perfectly. |
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Location: North Dakota | 1lb w/ 1lb Renew Gold in the morning and 1lb with beet pulp and supplements in the evening.
ETA- They also get a flake of alfalfa and have grass hay in a slow feeder 24/7.
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Location: Nowhere Land | 1 lb (1qt) am and pm with regular grain. (I feed triple crown complete ) I also give a couple of hand fulls before trailering and/or showing
This is in conjuction with full access to Timothy Hay 24-7.
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| 3 lbs morning and night, along with 1 lb of Ultium, and .5 lbs of Renew Gold. Free choice coastal/grass hay. They look and feel great. Had to back my little cowhorse down off the alfalfa pellets, she's not getting Ultium, she's quite chunky! |
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Location: Got Lobsta? | Is everyone soaking the pellets or just adding directly to their grain/feed? |
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| I soak because I have an older horse who has lost a tooth and another one is a gobbler. |
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Location: Nowhere Land | Mainer-racer - 2015-04-10 8:09 AM
Is everyone soaking the pellets or just adding directly to their grain/feed?
You can do either. Pellets are MUCH easier than cubes. I usually feed mine dry in the morning and wet the grain/pellet mix in the evening, i feed my supplements at night. They seem to lick the bowls clean when its in a mash, and get very picky about supplements when its dry. (thats my reasoning behind the wetting of the mix) But again, you dont have to. |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | AngieM1 - 2015-04-10 9:39 AM
Mainer-racer - 2015-04-10 8:09 AM
Is everyone soaking the pellets or just adding directly to their grain/feed?
You can do either. Pellets are MUCH easier than cubes. I usually feed mine dry in the morning and wet the grain/pellet mix in the evening, i feed my supplements at night. They seem to lick the bowls clean when its in a mash, and get very picky about supplements when its dry. (thats my reasoning behind the wetting of the mix ) But again, you dont have to.
I just give mine dry normally. |
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Location: North MS | 6 lbs a day on full turnout pasture/free choice hay. 2 oz. Grostrong minerals. The old lady TB gets 1/2 cup oil for extra umph. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | AngieM1 - 2015-04-10 7:39 AM
Mainer-racer - 2015-04-10 8:09 AM
Is everyone soaking the pellets or just adding directly to their grain/feed?
You can do either. Pellets are MUCH easier than cubes. I usually feed mine dry in the morning and wet the grain/pellet mix in the evening, i feed my supplements at night. They seem to lick the bowls clean when its in a mash, and get very picky about supplements when its dry. (thats my reasoning behind the wetting of the mix ) But again, you dont have to.
I soak mine but my cousin feeds the same brand (Standlee) and doesn't soak them. |
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