Question and AnswersHere is a selection of questions I have received from visitors regarding horse nutrition.Can I feed a ration balancer to my 8-month-old filly? Everyone at my barn says she needs to be eating more than that...but I would really like to feed her a ration balancer. (Anonymous, United States) I've heard of people feeding calf manna to their horses for a various reasons, though I've never tried it myself. Would you recommend this? (Anonymous, United States) Can I safely feed Purina's Mare & Maintenance (my feed dealer said its now called Enrich32) to a gelding? (Cowgirl, United States) I have a few questions about my gelding who coliced last year: 1. Is he getting too much protein? UHN's answer (and additonal information from Brittany). I have a gelding who just turned 4, I ride him 3 times a week. He looks like the paint filly in your picture on weight. He gets 14 pounds of grass hay a day,6 pound of Purina Strategy a day. Plus he is turned out. I started giving him 2 pounds of alfalfa pellets a month ago and last week he acted as if he was on speed. Spookings and just not acting himself. He is usually calm. I took him off and within a week he was back to his self. Someone told be to put him on beet pulp. Is this ok? Or is there something better? (Jerri, United States) I have two horses. One is an easy to keep welsh mountain pony gelding, 9 years old and the other is a hard to keep TB with weak hooves. I am very tight financially and need to make the feed dollars I have really stretch. Does anybody have any good ideas? I have just added BOSS to their feed to replace the much more expensive Purina Amplify. Coastal hay goes for 7.00$ a 40lb bale here. Big Rolls are a little cheaper but I have no way of handling them. I also have a very tiny farm, meaning no effective grazing. (Nora, United States) Return to Horse Nutrition Home |
