Re: Re: feed

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

If you're feeding more than a pound or two of alfalfa, lysine isn't a
concern.

Being "AR" about feeding your horses is fine---just make sure you're putting
the same effort into learning the reasons why, or it's all useless.

Susan G
----- Original Message -----
From: <twoodcock@lendleaserei.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:27 PM
Subject: RC: Re: feed


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> Well, I admit to not using the hay scale daily, only with new hay
shipments
> until I can guess how much a flake weighs.  But the concentrates are
weighed for
> each meal.  And when I use alfalfa, I use bagged dehydrated chop, so it's
> weighed too.
>
> I do have a very hard time finding someone to feed for me, even though of
the 8
> horses I say are mine, only one of them, Roo, actually is.  The rest
belong to
> other family members.  But I do all of the feeding, care, etc.  Even my
sister,
> who owns 4 of the 8 horses, only feeds for me if I start whining.  I just
spent
> 4 days in Vegas, and the instructions I left for my sister were 2 TYPED
pages
> long.  Ah, well.  I don't have "real" children, just the four-legged kind.
>
> My sister's horses probably don't like it better now that I care for them,
> because I cut their feed back so much, some of them think they're
starving.
> They hate how often I worm, and one of them thought he couldn't walk
without
> shoes until I "convinced" him that pasture potatoes have no need for a new
set
> of shoes every 6 weeks.  He thinks I'm evil.  I think he's a bigger prima
donna
> than Roo.  The pasture potatoes only get enough grain to hide the
vitamins.  But
> they're all super easy keepers.  (ALL ARE FOR SALE!  ONE IS A WONDERFUL
ARAB
> GELDING THAT HAS ALREADY DONE A COUPLE OF 25'S IN GREAT FORM!  PLEASE
RESCUE ONE
> FROM THE NOW INFAMOUS WOODCOCK FEEDING PROGRAM!)
>
> If it sounds like I'm ridiculous about Roo's feed, you should wait and ask
me
> again in 6 months.  The farther "my" broodmare gets in her pregnancy, the
more
> anal I get about her feed.  And I have a feeling that the older she gets
(she's
> 19), the worse I'll be. <G>
>
> -Tamara
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> "Jonni Jewell" <jonnij@earthlink.net> on 07/21/2000 08:47:41 PM
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> To:   Tamara Woodcock/US1/Lend Lease@LLNA
> cc:
>
> Subject:  feed
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> But at least you know you are "Anal" about your feeding<grin>.Wow, and my
> horses eat hay. Well, I take that back, hay, and some bran or beet pulp
when
> conditioning and going to rides. Never one to feed much else. if it works,
> don't fix it! (my horse says he would love to live with you<grin>) BTW, I
> don't weigh hay, just toss it in the corral. Some left over from the
> previous meal? Fed too much, the corral vacuumed so clean you can not find
> any hay, need to feed a tad more. now, the computer charting of work,
shots
> and such, I could get into that.
> Have a great weekend. (bet it hard for you to find a person to feed your
> horse if you go out of town<grin>)
>
> Jonni in California
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