I am so excited to be able to post to this forum! Okay, last July we bought two minis, a gelding and a mare. The man we bought them from said he fed sweet feed which we started out with. They were both rather hefty when we bought them. We took them off of the sweet feed and started them on 14% horse pellets. Our vet said that they could do completely without any feed and just live on hay alone and we could just give a handful of feed a day as a treat, but it does not sound like anyone on here does that. We went up to a better feed last week, Purina Nature's Essentials Enrich 12%. Per their weight (mare around 350 and gelding I am guessing around 425) we were told to feed 1/2 pound a day plus hay. We have a large round bale of blue stem hay that we give them free range to since we have then on a dry lot. We also give them each a couple flakes of timothy hay everyday.
The mare was acting like she was starving so I upped her feed as she is about 8-1/2 months pregnant. When my husband was at the feed store getting the Purina feed he asked about oats and they told him it was not good for them.
Anyway, as you can tell I am pretty confused on what is the best thing for them. I had thought about switching them over to Stradegy as it is quite a bit cheaper than the Nature's Essentials. Any recommendations or thoughts on what we should do? Thanks!
The mare was acting like she was starving so I upped her feed as she is about 8-1/2 months pregnant. When my husband was at the feed store getting the Purina feed he asked about oats and they told him it was not good for them.
Anyway, as you can tell I am pretty confused on what is the best thing for them. I had thought about switching them over to Stradegy as it is quite a bit cheaper than the Nature's Essentials. Any recommendations or thoughts on what we should do? Thanks!
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