Best feed for a hard keeper without a hefty price tag

[S1969]

@warriorhorse

No i didn’t include purchase price of our property that would of been 33,500 already paid off 2 years ago.

LOL that wouldn’t buy my garage, let alone the lot to put the garage on.

Keeping horses at home is cheaper than boarding because you don’t pay yourself. If you charged an hourly rate for your time, it probably wouldn’t really be cheaper.

Then of course add in property, buildings, pasture, fencing, taxes, insurance, equipment…I am certain I could have boarded my horses for less if I didn’t buy a farm at all.

So…really not a great comparison. You either want to live on a farm, or you don’t. But you don’t buy a farm and keep horses at home because it’s cheaper in the long run than living elsewhere and boarding.

To the OP - I wouldn’t necessarily abandon this lease. I’d consider a lease though, and not a lease to own - not at least until you have had time to ride and work with the horse. If you found out, for example, that the horse was currently only getting 18lbs of hay…the solution might be very simple. For a TB, that’s just not enough.

[trubandloki]

@Simkie

He’s on 12 quarts of sweet feed every day? :eek:

Did the OP remove some posts? I see people commenting to stuff that I am not seeing posted. Where did the OP say 12 quarts of sweet feed? I see in the top post that it says sweet feed but I do not see 12 quarts.

[Simkie]

@trubandloki

Did the OP remove some posts? I see people commenting to stuff that I am not seeing posted. Where did the OP say 12 quarts of sweet feed? I see in the top post that it says sweet feed but I do not see 12 quarts.

Yep, looks like. She removed all of her replies…there were a few of them.

[Palm_Beach]

@trubandloki

Did the OP remove some posts? I see people commenting to stuff that I am not seeing posted. Where did the OP say 12 quarts of sweet feed? I see in the top post that it says sweet feed but I do not see 12 quarts.

It doesn’t say it was edited. I don’t know where the 12 quarts a day came from.

[Simkie]

@Palm Beach

It doesn’t say it was edited. I don’t know where the 12 quarts a day came from.

Posts were DELETED. There were multiple replies. The OP stated the horse was getting 1 scoop beet pulp and two scoops sweet feed twice a day, and the scoop was three quarts. She then deleted that post, along with a couple others.

[Palm_Beach]

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

[Scribbler]

Yeah OP said something like she was definitely going to reconsider the whole thing, and then deleted all the replies.

[Suspiria]

That’s annoying that the OP left!! I didn’t even get to share my old-TB-fattening secret weapon: Calf Manna or some other bovine milk replacer.

A few years back, I got an old TB mare back from a lease and she was in a sorry state. I tried all the conventional remedies: ulcer treatment, soaked alf pellets, free choice high quality hay, Equine Senior and Strategy GX. This mare hated alf and wouldn’t eat it, so that was a challenge. She still wasn’t adding weight how I wanted, but once I added bovine milk replacer and flax, i had a whole different shiny/fat/healthy lady.