This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I certainly agree...I don't like obese fjords. I keep mine pretty happy
feeding them several small meals a day, about 6 times when I am at home. A
major hay feeding at 6:00 am, a mid morning hay snack, A noon feeding
(fairly large in the wint
This message is from: Janet McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
re: free choice round bales... the trick to prevent obesity
is to select lower quality hay, so they can eat as much as
they want. High fiber (NDF > 55) restricts intake by
filling them up...kinda like high fiber unsugared
cereal...only so mu
This message is from: "Snowy Mtn." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have found several ways to use round &/or large bales and keep my fjords
looking great.
First of all my younger horses are allowed all they want of high quality hay
so good round bales pose no problem. A few older horses can even join this
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I use round bales year round out in the pastures for our guys. I haven't had
any problems with them at all. Robyn in MD
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Free feeding a fjord? One fjord here, before he was bought by my friend,
was kept with several appaloosa types where they free fed round bales. He
became terribly obese, lost any hint of "waistline", looked like a huge
saus
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Hi Everyone-
Speaking of keeping Fjords at home, I know there was a discussion a while
back about the use of round bales of hay. I wonder how many of you use these,
or another method, or free feeding your horses?
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> she only eats what and
> when
> > she wishes to. I can put a whole manger full of
> hay -
in front of her and be gone
> all
> > day and she still has only eaten
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In a message dated 1/29/01 7:42:00 PM Mountain Standard Time,
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> She eats pretty much "free
> choice". By that I mean she only eats what and when
> she wishes to. I can put a whole manger full of hay -
> nearly a whole bale -
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