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<blockquote data-quote="Bez!" data-source="post: 227963" data-attributes="member: 2830"><p>Well, I am just a dumb cowboy who has run a few horses over the years so you can put that in front of anything I am about to say.</p><p></p><p>I will also add that I do not keep any horses in a pen so I speak from range experience here and it is rare I provide any input to this section of the boards.</p><p></p><p>When we are finished for the day - if and only if - the horse has been working hard - we give it a few oats and "pick your choice of performance extras".</p><p></p><p>Rest of the time anything that has been weaned lives on grass, some salt and mineral licks.</p><p></p><p>We have only a couple left on the place and they are in a 30 - 40 acre pasture and do quite well. </p><p></p><p>Winter they live outdoors at all times and eat the same round bales the cows get. When it hits minus 20 - 30 we add a little corn to their diet.</p><p></p><p>Work them and they need some additionals - otherwise the animals we have ALWAYS kept seem to do very well on good grass.</p><p></p><p>Fat and sassy - some times too much so. I can assure you they are not suffering.</p><p></p><p>You can spend until your wallet floats away in a light breeze. That does not mean you are doing them any favours. Feed companies will love you though. And there are always the resident experts who will tell you that you are starving your horse unless you feed them product x,y,z.</p><p></p><p>Horse affictionados will probably be happy to disagree with me - but then we are NOT the type to wet our hay down before we feed them and we do not believe it is necessary to buy "sack feed" to keep a horse.</p><p></p><p>Good grass, good water and some salt and mineral and they do fine. If they do not and you are not into performance horses and showing horses - then sell them - as fast as possible. Sell them at meat price if necessary - in the long run the cash you save on fancy feed will more than make up for the loss in dollars if you spent too much on the initial purchase price.</p><p></p><p>Hard keepers prove the point: <em>The only thing cheap about a horse is the purchase price!</em></p><p></p><p>Bez!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bez!, post: 227963, member: 2830"] Well, I am just a dumb cowboy who has run a few horses over the years so you can put that in front of anything I am about to say. I will also add that I do not keep any horses in a pen so I speak from range experience here and it is rare I provide any input to this section of the boards. When we are finished for the day - if and only if - the horse has been working hard - we give it a few oats and "pick your choice of performance extras". Rest of the time anything that has been weaned lives on grass, some salt and mineral licks. We have only a couple left on the place and they are in a 30 - 40 acre pasture and do quite well. Winter they live outdoors at all times and eat the same round bales the cows get. When it hits minus 20 - 30 we add a little corn to their diet. Work them and they need some additionals - otherwise the animals we have ALWAYS kept seem to do very well on good grass. Fat and sassy - some times too much so. I can assure you they are not suffering. You can spend until your wallet floats away in a light breeze. That does not mean you are doing them any favours. Feed companies will love you though. And there are always the resident experts who will tell you that you are starving your horse unless you feed them product x,y,z. Horse affictionados will probably be happy to disagree with me - but then we are NOT the type to wet our hay down before we feed them and we do not believe it is necessary to buy "sack feed" to keep a horse. Good grass, good water and some salt and mineral and they do fine. If they do not and you are not into performance horses and showing horses - then sell them - as fast as possible. Sell them at meat price if necessary - in the long run the cash you save on fancy feed will more than make up for the loss in dollars if you spent too much on the initial purchase price. Hard keepers prove the point: [i]The only thing cheap about a horse is the purchase price![/i] Bez! [/QUOTE]
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