There is a stallion 3yr. Old here on an acre of land covered by mostly trees that are standing and laying on ground here in Cedar Creek. I saw the owners. Uncle feeding him 3 (mark on bucket) Producers Pride Pellet 12% in the evening. I am wondering if that is good enough for him. To me, I think he deserves more, and something better, there isnt enough grass to eat, I wonder what I can do to make him buy some hay for this poor horse, as to me, he isnt getting enough quality food
You mean, the horse has no hay, very little grass, and only that pelleted feed? If so, then that is absolutely not cool. The PP is also a low quality, high sugar feed, so that’s making matters worse.
You can’t make him do anything though. What you can do is give him facts about horses requiring about 2% of their body weight every day in forage (dry weight), whether that’s grass or hay. That means, if the horse is 1000lb, that’s 20lb of hay, and more if it’s grass (which has a lot of water in it).
Wellll, it’s very hard to MAKE someone else care for their animals the way you think they should. Can you offer to buy the animal?
If you can’t do that, buy him I mean, then hay is the best feed, and sometimes the reason people go to the feed store and buy grain is because it’s a lot easier to buy a bag of feed at a store than try to find somebody selling decent hay, then go get the hay, and have a place to store the hay, plus it goes away so fast and a lot of people have a hard time with the idea that they paid for the hay that the horse is walking and peeing all over.
But, it can’t hurt to find a hay guy and tell the owner that so and so sells round bales or square bales for a good price, and will even deliver pretty often.
If they won’t take that advice and the horse loses condition then it’s time to call AC. Unfortunately if the horse colics you can tell them about the danger of that but most of the time if somebody is ignorant they aren’t going to learn from you anyway, it’s a sad fact.
