Re: psyllium/feeding

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/9/99 9:51:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, Olympian06@aol.com
writes:

<< I would love to feed my horses more than two times a day but I am only home
in
 the mornings and afternoons.  How do some of you accomplish feeding more that
 twice a day, I know you are all busy people.........pay someone...buy feeders
 that run on timers.....etc?????  And geeezzz, one of my horses would eat
 himself sick, any ideas on that one? >>

Actually, Johnna, I free-feed all my broodmares, and they stay in great shape.
They pig out at first on this sort of program, but in the long run I find that
I feed less tonnage in a free-feed program than I do when feeding meals.  I'm
sure there are some horses too piggy to adjust, but have not yet run into any
here.  I feed "big" bales--the 800# sort that you just put out in the field
for them--but you can accomplish the same thing with feeders.  One caution
about feeders, though--I don't like the variety that are up in the air, as it
is easier for horses to get hay fines in their eyes, inhale dust, etc. than
when they eat closer to ground level.

Heidi