A Forage Replacer Recipe   by Timothy Capper

Horses are forage eaters, meaning they wander around your yard eating the grass and hay available. Each must have a good and steady flow of high quality food to stay as healthy as they deserve However, horses sometimes stop eating hay due to poor dental health. Horse with poor teeth may find it impossible to break apart the hay follicles or to pull grass from the ground.

Your horse may also have developed a dislike or fickle taste that suddenly excludes grass or hay. The reasons for this pickiness are likely mysterious but they must be dealt with immediately. You cannot let your steeds get malnurished during the summer and winter months. The best solution is to make a forage replacer for your horse. A forage replacer is a group of concentrated foods that your horse can easily eat. These combined foods will take over the place of hay in your horse’s diet, if necessary.

The ingredients for a forage replacer include high fiber nuts, kwikbeats and alfalfa. The kwikbeats must be soaked in water before mixing them into your forage replacer. The high fiber nuts may be soaked if your horse is struggling to chew them. Leave these to soak overnight before preparing your forage replacer.

Start by weighing your horse on a scale in kilograms. Write this number down somewhere to keep as a reference for later. The recipe for this feed is very simple. Each ingredient must be mixed in at 600 grams for every 100 kilogram of your horse. For example, if your horse is 600 kilograms, you divide 600 by 100 to get 6. Multiple the 6 by 600 to come up with 3,600 grams. Divide this by 1,000 to find the kilograms needed. In the case of a 600 kilogram horse, you will need 3.6 grams of all of your ingredients.

Carefully weight all your ingredients into separate buckets. Pour them into a larger bucket that you can fit around your horse’s ears or neck. Don’t feed all of it to the horse in one feed. Horses are “trickle feeders” which means they must eat their food throughout the day in order to stay healthy. They will gladly eat it all at once, which will leave them hungry later.

If your horse struggles when you try to remove the bucket, try a “bucket spread” method. Pour equal amounts of your feed into smaller buckets and place one or two in the stable every few hours. The horse will eat all the feed and be content until next feeding time. Spreading several buckets of all of the feed around the stable may also work but it may also lead to your horse eating all of his feed too quickly.

Another way to slow his feeding is to place a small block of salt or large rocks into the bucket. The horse won’t eat these but will eat around them. The horse will necessarily slow down to eat around the rocks and may even temporarily give up out of frustration.

Experiment with feeding methods until you find one that works for you and is comfortable for your horse. Never force a particular feeding method on a horse that is already struggling to eat. This may only further complicate matters and make him more frustrated.

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