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| My mare foaled on june 15 we have had a hot summer and my baby is big chuck and taking her down. I am giving her about 25 pounds of nice grass hay, 6 pounds of chopped hay also 5 pounds of low starch grain and 6 scoops of cool caleries. I just wormed her. Any suggestions of getting weight on her. I have ordered some alfalfa but it will not be her until nest week.
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Location: Where I am happiest | Adding alfalfa will help alot. At least 1 big flake morning and again evening along with her grass hay. I have also found nothing adds weight along with alfalfa like good ole fashioned C.O.B. |
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| My brood is on my best pasture, three flakes of my Montana alfalfa x 2 daily, and about 6-8 lbs of fat enriched (rice bran and soy oil) Legends Carbcare Performance a day. Her foal was born 4/14. She is looking a little thin right now too, even with all those added calories and grazing. It has been a hot summer here in the east. I am looking forward to weaning sometime around Labor Day. |
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Location: Florida.. | nothing beats good high fat feed and hay and pasture.. I personally think a good quality HIGH FAT grain, not supplement and good quality alfalfa or soaked cubes (until you get some )nd 24-7 hay and pasture Is what Id do..I know cool calories is high fat.. but i think this might work better.. |
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | Bibliafarm - 2015-08-09 9:50 AM
nothing beats good high fat feed and hay and pasture.. I personally think a good quality HIGH FAT grain, not supplement  and good quality alfalfa or soaked cubes (until you get some )nd 24-7 hay and pasture Is what Id do..I know cool calories is high fat.. but i think this might work better..
Yep. Feed her more good stuff! She needs lots of calories!! |
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Location: W. Pa. | The alfalfa is the best way to put hay on a mare with a foal. Try some alfalfa pellets until your hay arrives. Dairy farmers feed alfalfa to produce lots of milk.
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Alfalfa...2 to 3 flakes morning and night plus free choice grass hay and a good high fat grain for nursing mares...when I have one being drawn down ultium growth is what I feed em per label plus the above... |
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| Mine gets 6 lbof feed utwice a day. She is out on pasture but if the grass gets thin I give her a couple of flakes of hay twice a day. She has loose minerals out too. |
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| She get 20lb of grass hay, 10 pound of hig fat feed, 4 scoops am/pm of kool kaleries per day and 5 pound of bagged hay like southern states or whatever blue seal. Had to stop usimg chafe hay as it gave one horse a coug and the other horse both riding horses had bad coughs swithed to souther states and with in 3 days te coufht stopped. But the filly is big and eats good. I will get some omegetin and add that.
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Location: Florida.. | what grain ?? you said low starch and I am wondering what is it? out of curiosity.. also first post said 5 lbs?
Edited by Bibliafarm 2015-08-09 9:48 PM
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Tried and True
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Location: Where I am happiest | Feed her all the hay she can eat free choice. |
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Location: In between 4 ridges | Alfalfa and Foal Lac milk pellets. They are very high in fat. I had an orphan foal this spring. He is on the pellets and they have him looking great. The label says to feed to the brood mare/ stud as well. Just a thought. |
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| I would add simple calories such as whole oats or barley, I find my broodmares need the instant energy too, as it takes energy to process the fats.
I would also feed more hay/pasture |
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Location: Texas | Low starch grain is forage based. That's good feed but feeding broodmares, they need a lot of calories.
I always feed my lactating mares twice the grain the other horses get. So she gets two 3-quart scoops of 12/8 pellets, along with some alfalfa morning and night, and all the grass or grass hay she wants (pasture/round bale).
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| Add Forco to your grain. Its a digestive fortifier which helps horse get the most nutrients out of their feed thru better digestion. Horse rescue places are using Forco to put weight on. you can look it up at forco.com |
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Location: Arkansas | We had a mare, who when she had a foal on her would look like death warmed over. I threatented to hide her in a back pasture so we would't be turned in for animal abuse, she looked so bad!! To get her in a good weight and still feed that foal, we fed her 18# total, of Land O Lakes Mare and Foal. (Land of Lakes is now owned by Purina). She was fed morning, noon, evening and a 10pm night time meal. I was Lunch Lady and she was always ready for her lunch. She had good pasture all the time and good grass hay mixed with alfalfa in her stall all the time. Always fresh water. Our vet told us to up her feed intake until she put on weight...hence the 18#. The goal was to never let her get hungry. She was still eating for two! LOL
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| Lobo - 2015-08-10 10:59 PM
We had a mare, who when she had a foal on her would look like death warmed over.  I threatented to hide her in a back pasture so we would't be turned in for animal abuse, she looked so bad!!  To get her in a good weight and still feed that foal, we fed her 18# total, of Land O Lakes Mare and Foal.  (Land of Lakes is now owned by Purina).  She was fed morning, noon, evening and a 10pm night time meal. I was Lunch Lady and she was always ready for her lunch.  She had good pasture all the time and good grass hay mixed with alfalfa in her stall all the time.  Always fresh water. Our vet told us to up her feed intake until she put on weight...hence the 18#.  The goal was to never let her get hungry.  She was still eating for two! LOL Â
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I feed my mare at least twice a day and if necessary three times a day like you. As the foal starts to eat, I increase the feed. If you don't have that baby eating grain when you wean them you are going to have some serious issues. A mare that is a good milker needs protein to produce milk not high fat or high energy feeds |
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Location: Texas | Only thing that worked for my broodmare was mixing a bag of Calf Manna with 2 bags of hi-fat pellets. Granted she was 20 yrs old but baby was pulling her down bad & bones were starting to show. She looks way better now.
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