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Good ideas! The grass is super bright green and long and thick. It just looks like colic waiting to happen. I guess I can use the smaller area for now and it wouldn't take as much work to clean it out. Thanks so much for the advice.

Thank you all for your advice! Much appreciated!

I'm guessing it's the grain. I know all horses are different, but I was feeding my 35" mare 2 pounds a day (1 in the morning and 1 at night) and she was very overweight. I'm guessing too that the 30" stallion shouldn't need the same amount of grain that the 35" stallion needs, but like I said...

Oh yeah, I did forget to mention the mineral block! I just bought each of mine a 50 pound block for only $5 each at Tractor Supply

Hi Wendy! I am very new to this, but I will share what advice I was offered and what worked for me. I did get a lot of different opinions, some said to cut my mare's grain completely out, and others said they never would, so I just reduced it drastically. And I did so very slowly, over a few...

We used all of our savings to get this place, so I don't have any extra money right now to buy panels. Oh boy... I don't want to make my horses sick... Maybe I can get a few goats and let them eat the grass in the smaller paddock (there are two paddocks so far) Then I will only have to stall her...

Hi Wendy, Since I gradually reduced her grain, it took about a month. I only cut back on her hay only a very little bit, since I thought it would be best for the winter. But it has also been VERY mild here this winter. It's been 80 degrees for the last three days I just looked at your thread...

Thank you! I will do that. He had very good manners when I got him, and lately I haven't asked a whole lot from him, so I plan on doing more groundwork with him once we finish moving. Things have been so hectic around here with packing and travelling back and forth that all I have been doing...

My husband always calls them jennys, but I guess the correct name would be a horse walker horse walker Thank you for the advice! I'm looking forward to working with him

Thank you for the compliment! I guess she can be considered an "easy keeper" The problem is, at our new mini-ranch, there is no fenced area that doesn't have grass. I would have to keep her stalled most of the time, and the only time in her whole life she has been kept stalled is when she was...

With show season around the corner, I'd like to start conditioning my colt. He won't be 2 years old until August, and I was wondering if he's too young to start teaching him to lunge? If not, how often and for how long? If he is, what other types of exercise are safe for him? What about a...

YAY!! Thanks for the compliments! I felt pretty vulnerable putting her pictures up, worrying that she didn't look as good as I thought -whew! I am feeding her one cup of Equistages grain and one (pre-soaked) cup of beet pulp twice a day and she gets a half of a small flake of hay along with her...

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Thanks to all who offered feeding advice to help me get my mares weight down! I think she is looking thinner now that I have put her on a diet, as everyone recommended LOL I thought she was a little heavy, but apparently she was obese. So what do you all think? Is she where she should be, still...

Silly Boxer! I haven't been online in awhile and was sure missing everyone! So glad that everyone is okay Renee. I was worried for you when I read the title...