helmstead
Goat Mistress
IMO Horses should have all the hay they can eat to keep healthy...none of this % of bodyweight thing. (grass hay! not alfalfa/legumes)
Two years. I have a paint/perch, and a QH. We have always fed 40# a day, and I have never had underweight horses. (except when Jigs needed his teeth floated, but he put the weight back on right away.) This is what the vet recommended, and this is what we do.Farmer Kitty said:How long have you had your horses?miss_thenorth said:This just confuses me...considering a horse should eat 2% of its body weight per day, my two horses should get roughly 40# hay per day-- x7=280. That bale should last two weeks at least. Or do I have my math wrong?helmstead said:I only have two horses, and we use rounds. Takes them a week to go through about 700 lbs. We just set them in the field, and never set one in the same place. Yes, there's waste, but its not too bad. We've never had one mold in the time it takes them to eat them.