Two weeks ago I had to say goodbye to my old gelding, my best friend of nearly 20 years. This left us with a lonely mare in addition to our own heartache.
We adopted a reservation Mustang colt frm a feedlot just over a week ago. He is roughly 12.1hh, have not measured for weight yet, and is in the 6 to 10 month age by his teeth. He’s doing great! Already easily halterable and leading, loading, picking up front feet and grooming. He will be gelded asap.
He is eating orchard and alfalfa free choice and quite a lot of it, (Haven’t weighed but he gets two decent sized alfalfa flakes and two orchard daily, cleans most up, this is as much as my 1800+lb mare eats a day!) and just started taking pelleted feed ( I’m feeding the remainder of my TACO and complete Senior to finish what we had from my old man). I’m trying to decide the best feed to support him as he grows. He is in a good weight but is more belly than topline. My two considerations are between a simple/ standard ration balancer (Purina or Nuterna) or as I’m a fan of Ultium products trying their Ultium Growth. Thoughts? The two in his herd that I belive are his parents are large Mustangs at roughly 15hh and thick broad horses. I want to get the best growth I can without riskinh DOD.