The worst thing is flipping blankets. If I'm blanketing I have light, medium and heavyweight options available. Our temperature fluctuates so much that it can warm up or drop 20° in a day. It will go back and forth like that in the winter and I'm sometimes changing blankets twice a day. I'm...
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I have two very fat minis (Grace and Millie) living on a little track. I was free feeding them in 1" slow feeders and of course they stayed fat.
I looked up how much they should be eating by weight and I put them on a diet. Now they get 4 lbs/day each (1.5% of body weight)...
I think I'm going to try the track system... I did some reading about it after reading these replies. The electric fence that she goes through is one that I set up for big horses to keep them off the drains we had installed in the paddock. The top wire is way above the minis heads and so it's...
I am hoping someone can give me some ideas for creating a dry paddock. My two minis are very fat and one is cresty and I'm worried about her foundering. They are in a large paddock and they can't keep up with the grass so have an unlimited buffet every time they are turned out. I want to take...