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| Just curious as to what everyone else feeds to their yearlings? ?? |
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| 1lb oats, two flakes alfalfa and all he can't eat hay. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | native prairie grass hay,salt block and an Equi Pride lick tub. |
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| Well, the first baby that I had in many years, was fed a Purina pellet designed for weanlings and yearlings. It was 16%. Stupid horse just would not stop growing. He is 16-1 and very thick. He is the paint in my avatar. I don't think you can buy that feed anymore or at least I can't. Everything else is fed a 14% pellet by body weight along with grow strong minerals. In the fall and winter they get a quality hay. All of my horse have matured out over 16 hands. Yes, They are big horses. I have regular measuring stick. Not a tape. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | renew gold and alfalfa |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Pasture free choice minerals and salt. That is it until they are started under saddle at 3. |
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| My weanling will get Bluebonnet Intensify Growth until he is 2. Then he will go to the 14/8 everyone else is on. |
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Location: Willows, CA | The diet needs to be 15% quality protein for the overall diet while they are growing. If you can do that with mostly quality roughage, that is best. Where roughage is very poor, and total protein is low, they may benefit from a high protein ration balancer. There are a lot of options there. Limit grain as much as possible. Calcium/ phosphorus ratios are very important through the growing stages as is attention to teeth and parasite control. Most benefit from a source of fat soluble vitamins in the diet. Be sure that they have access to salt. |
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| Can alfalfa pellets be substituted for alfalfa hay? We have grass hay with just a little alfalfa in it, and I haven’t got our load of alfalfa yet |
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| As you know I believe in the KISS system ...
I pay attention to the Calcium and Phosphorous ratios ..
while feeding as natural as possible year round.
I start off with the mare before she is ever bred and make sure she is in a 7-8
body condition. .. with 10 as obese.
Worming program every 60 days on holidays with a 90 day Quest at New Years
Extra mare worming 10 days before foaling. Prevents baby from getting a tummy
full of worms due to them eating mamas poop to start their gut bacteria ..
I use a 3 qt standard scoop as my measuring device .. practically everything
weighs 3 lbs per scoop.
Keep in mind mare foals and is bred back so she is now feeding two babies..
My feeding program remains the same .... as the weanling grows I will add another
scoop or two as it grows and then is weaned. Meanwhile baby in tummy is getting
all it needs too.
I feed once per day with good pasture or hay 24/7 year round.
I scoop 2 scoops of each of the following in a plastic bucket.
whole oats 12%, a 11% alfalfa/corn pellet, 16% sweet feed ='s a 13% ration
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I also throw a handful of Moorman's GroStrong minerals in bucket every other day
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When feeding these two together I give them 3 scoops of the mix above
and when stalled 1 1/2 scoops which is 4.5 lbs for each per day.
You can do the above if your horses are kept in good shape ..
on these two I feed 2 sacks of each = 300 lbs @ a cost of <$60/month
Here is a picture of both ..
mare is 15.3HH and filly is now 18 months old..
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Location: Bandera, TX | camocowgirl - 2017-10-31 11:39 PM Can alfalfa pellets be substituted for alfalfa hay? We have grass hay with just a little alfalfa in it, and I haven’t got our load of alfalfa yet
I've talked to several nutritionist about pellets or cubes vs the hay and they ALL prefer the hay and the benefits it brings to the horse. When I'm hauling I too will cube if I can't find great quality alfalfa.
I like the contributions of the fella's they have great feeding programs.
I have only one baby that I just weaned and I added a new mineral to my program and even though I had my mix analyzed mid summer I'm sending it in again so I know I'm spot on for my colt. It just irritates the heck out of me we have so many horses with OCD issues and they are trail ride horse vs barrel horses running into their 20's. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I feed 1#oats-whole, 1#Renew Gold, 1/2#Calf Manna and mineral daily when I ride. Alfalfa/coastal on days I don't ride. That's pretty much every other day for me. |
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| The soundest horses I have ever ridden are ones that were not fed grain in their growing years. Good hay/pasture and a mineral block is all I want my growing horses to have. I won't buy a horse that was "grown" on grain and supplements. |
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