Hi everybody:
There are a lot of posters from diffrent areas and I'm wondering what your preferences are for feeding yearlings?
Feed amount?
Brand? or type?
Reasoning?
Thanks!
Yearling Feed
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I like to feed alfalfa & oat hay, and Omolene 300. I never feed Equine Junior anymore. My orphan foal was on 50/50 Omolene 300 and Equine Junior. He had abnormal manure (like a loaf instead of like apples), which I was puzzling over, but I thought it was Foal-lac or goat's milk doing it. He would colic about once a month, really badly, extreme pain. Several people had warned me that orphan foals often colic, so I wasn't thinking about examining my husbandry for the solution. Thankfully I ran out of Equine Junior and started feeding all Omolene 300 instead. By the next day, his manure was normal. Hmmm, I thought, it can't be that easy. Sure enough, he's never colicked again ever. That was the last bag I bought of EJ.
I also feed Farnam Grow colt. There are a lot of fancy vitamins on the market these days, but people often remark to me how great my horses look, and I only use the Grow Colt and Vita-Plus for adult horses. I have 100% winners raised on my place, except for Magic who didn't go to training (because he's so special
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I also feed Farnam Grow colt. There are a lot of fancy vitamins on the market these days, but people often remark to me how great my horses look, and I only use the Grow Colt and Vita-Plus for adult horses. I have 100% winners raised on my place, except for Magic who didn't go to training (because he's so special
)."When I am on my deathbed, I imagine I will say, 'Thank God I did that'" - Arthur Hancock, on buying back Gato del Sol from Europe after Exceller was killed in a slaughterhouse in Sweden.
I prefer good parture, good quality free choice oats and good quality free choice hay.. I do a little 12% sweet feed by hand so i can catch them.
in my openion many more horses been screwed up with too much high proteen feed that have ever been harmed with too little or low proteeen feed.
griff
in my openion many more horses been screwed up with too much high proteen feed that have ever been harmed with too little or low proteeen feed.
griff
"We has met the enemy and he is us" [Pogo]
Yes, pasture first! I left that out without thinking, but I have to feed supplemental hay in CA since it doesn't rain between May and October. I only feed a little sweet feed. You can really give them epiphysitis if you feed them too much.
"When I am on my deathbed, I imagine I will say, 'Thank God I did that'" - Arthur Hancock, on buying back Gato del Sol from Europe after Exceller was killed in a slaughterhouse in Sweden.
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Yearling Care
Sure, as you say.
I'm just wondering about everyone's opinion on feed. We have a lot of posters from all over and the info so far has been interesting and already a little diffrent from one another.
I have a yearling that came back to me from another farm a little on the skinny side. That got me thinking about this topic. I think his case may have been more of not being in a stress-free enviroment.
Thank you for your replies!
I'm just wondering about everyone's opinion on feed. We have a lot of posters from all over and the info so far has been interesting and already a little diffrent from one another.
I have a yearling that came back to me from another farm a little on the skinny side. That got me thinking about this topic. I think his case may have been more of not being in a stress-free enviroment.
Thank you for your replies!
Yep, free choice oats.. Oats have enough roughage so a horse will not eat too many. actually I find that once they get their firstfill that eat 15# to 20# per day.
Yearlings can digres whole oats but 2Yo and some long yearlings need crimped oats.. They also get free choice hay and free choice menerials. Number 1 and #2 oats will run 10% to 12 % proteen and that's enough. I believe oats, good hay and good grazing plus free choice menerials take care of everything.. That also allows you to buy bulk oats that can be dei leivered staright to your self feeders whick will cut your feed billin half/ ..
griff
Yearlings can digres whole oats but 2Yo and some long yearlings need crimped oats.. They also get free choice hay and free choice menerials. Number 1 and #2 oats will run 10% to 12 % proteen and that's enough. I believe oats, good hay and good grazing plus free choice menerials take care of everything.. That also allows you to buy bulk oats that can be dei leivered staright to your self feeders whick will cut your feed billin half/ ..
griff
"We has met the enemy and he is us" [Pogo]
Pasture, pasture, pasture. I like to shed raise my horses, they are out in the fields even when "broke". We just bring them in to the stalls to prep them for their lessons and then back out into the field they go.
But, I also have a mineral/salt block in the shed, plus I feed, either omelene 200, or the comparable in Pennfield Feeds or Manna Pro Feeds. I find they have the same numbers and are sometimes less expensive. Also, I supplement them with good quality timothy/clover hay. I save the alfalfa for a treat in the winter. After speaking to a number of equine nutrisionists, they say if you have a good quality feed with the correct %'s then you don't really need much more except forage.
I also add electrolytes to their evening feed winter, summer, spring and fall.
wind
But, I also have a mineral/salt block in the shed, plus I feed, either omelene 200, or the comparable in Pennfield Feeds or Manna Pro Feeds. I find they have the same numbers and are sometimes less expensive. Also, I supplement them with good quality timothy/clover hay. I save the alfalfa for a treat in the winter. After speaking to a number of equine nutrisionists, they say if you have a good quality feed with the correct %'s then you don't really need much more except forage.
I also add electrolytes to their evening feed winter, summer, spring and fall.
wind