Re: Hay or ???

suer wrote:
Up until this spring I taught pony club stable care and I have to
say it is shocking what some of the kids feed!


I tend to follow the natural/endurance method: fibre, fibre and more
fibre.

So grass, hay, carrots and if he were a hard-working Arab, he'd be on
one of those high-fibre alfalfa chop bags too.

No straights or nuts.

His half-scoop coolmix in the morning is probably more for my benefit
than his as I like giving him breakfast and while he's munching I can
check him over.

and it does no harm in securing a balance of trace elements and minerals.
:~)

But I know what you mean
The two aging unridden natives in my fields here need NOTHING at this
moment - great grass even in the top dry field and they are Round! but I
"want" to give them something. <g> I don't - but I want to

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