What's In Your Feedroom?
OK, maybe you don't even have a feedroom...for lots of us, a corner of an aisle or stall serves as our feed-storage area. In any case, I'm just curious to learn what you buy and keep on hand as equine feedstuffs. Here's my list:
* Grass and alfalfa hay (two kinds, not a mix), in small square bales. We buy 20 tons each summer.
* Pelleted beet pulp.
* Oats.
* Purina Strategy, for a boarded horse.
* LMF Development, and Showtime, for my yearling filly and 4-year-old gelding, respectively.
* Strongic C pelleted dewormer.
* HorseGuard supplement.
* TDI-10 supplement.
* SmartPak, individual-dose supplements, for a boarded horse.
* Trace-mineralized salt blocks.
I do happen to have a feedroom, with shelves and lidded bins for storing all these goodies. Interestingly, it was originally built for bulk oats storage, with an exterior opening through which oats were augered in, and a small interior chute from which oats were dispersed into individual feed buckets. Fairly easy to tell that the barn was designed by someone with a dairy-cattle background; it has the equivalent of a cream-separating room, too, where I now store all my horse meds.
posted by Juli Thorson @ 12:21 PM
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My feed area (makin' do until the barn gets renovated this summer) contains:
-wet cob
-equi-lux basic horse vitamin
-a big bale (about half a ton) of good quality alfalfa
-valley grass hay that we put up on this place last summer
I'm feeding two QH geldings, a three and an 11, and a donkey. They're all out on really good spring pasture whenever they're not in the barn eating or being ridden. My feeding program is a dulicate of my parents' program as I just brought my horse home about 2 months ago. I've thought about putting my 3 yo on LMF Showtime, but if it's not broke...
My feedroom is a good quality grass hay. LMF Showtime and Development, Beet pulb pellets, Bran, molasses and oats( these 3 for hot mashes for mares after foaling or horses after long trips) and Stabalized Rice Bran.
I have a feed room that doubles as my bathroom in the barn...the building used to be a "Honky-tonk" with showers, many toilets, urinals, pool tables, a wrap-around bar etc. Now it is a barn with 5 16 x 20 stalls for my 3 horses (all paints) and my feedroom with a toilet and a untinal, two showers (non-functioning) There I store three feed cans with lids for alfalfa pellets, an all-grain mix, and rice bran...I also mix up the dog food and cat food on a table there...totally safe n secure from any horses as it has a locking door. The hay is stacked in an open area by a massive roll-tite garage door.
- grass alfalfa mix hay 75 to 25 ratio
- manna mature pelleted feed for the mature horses
- wagon train for the young horses
- wheat bran mash, fed once per week
I ALWAYS have apple waffers in the tack room and they know it! I believe in bribery, i.e. loose horse, grab a cookie. Stubborn horse, negotiate with a cookie. Grooming, feed a cookie or two for bonding. Plus I get enjoyment out of seeing their faces light up when they get a cookie just for being them.
I live in area where I have to feed 24/7/365 so I feed 3 times per day, way less instances of colic this way. Once when I get up, once before I go to work, once when i come home from work. It equals out to a flake of hay about every 8-10 hours and they are NOT on a time schedule. They get fed when I get there which I feel guilty about sometimes, but I have no choice living single and I work, they've learned to cope with it.
I only feed the wagon train and pelleted feed in the cold of winter, or if they are working. Other wise it's just hay, once a week bran mash, and a cookie now and then.
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