Re: How do you feed hay?

Andee gets as much as she can eat but in small holed haynets as think she'd get through even more! Always like to see a little left in her night net as dont like it when she eats out :)

Re: How do you feed hay?

If i ad-lib hay for Roobee she would easily do over a bale a night. she wont stop until she is full and the hay is all gone. She has half a bale over night and it is usually gone in 5 hours it is a small holed haylage net but still doesnt really slow her down.

JJ is fed hay shaken out in a pile in the corner of his stable/ I give him 2-3 slices over night. He is 9 months old.

They are turned out from 6am to 6 pm and then in the stable for the other 12 hours.

Re: How do you feed hay?

Im currently having to re think my hay situation, my pony 13.3h chuncky native 4 years old lives out durning the day around 8am until 4pm then comes in at night, we only have small fields and the winter turn out fields and very churned up at the moment. bobs set up is a little complicated he has 3 days on his own with a very small, small holed hay net , the type that fits in 2 slices of hay, then he has 3 days with another pony and they have 1 large net between them, just on the floor, then swap back to on his own and at night he has four slices of hay in a medium sized small holed hay net. I thought we were doing ok, but the vets just been to see a goat this evening and i asked her to look at bob, he is still over weight, ugg, im so fed up. 

So my plan 

go down to 1 slice in the field during the day, at least until the grass starts to come through

go down to 3 slices in the evening, with one slice of straw mixed in, but im going to get some rubber matting, take away his straw bed which he eats at night. Im going to buy/make lots of intresting things i can put small amounts of his evening food in, and dot them around his stable, he has a massive stable and im just not making use of it, i want him to move and mooch at night and not just stand at his net then move on to his bed. 

I cant give him any less than this surely? would love to hear how much ponys similar to my lad get, maybe my portions are way out. He goes on hacks at the weekend and has a mixture of freelunging and riding in the paddock durning the week, i will be upping his exercise now though. 

any ideas much appreciated, in the spring,summer and autum he will be on resricted grassing using electric fencing 

Re: How do you feed hay?

Kero is fed adlib haylage. Its really important that he isn't without forage as he is prone to stomach ulcers. He gets around 10kg a night in a large haynet and same again through the day if he is in. He is never without food and that suits him best.

Re: How do you feed hay?

Hi, it is ad-lib, and in a very small holed haynet!  One of those elim-a-net jobs, pain to fill though, I'm always having to wrestle with it, but it does the job and keeps him occupied.