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How much do I feed?

By using fresh live green feed, it is easy to manage your horses diets and provide them with everything they require.....
·         Medium Work usually requires feed of 8 - 12 kg per day per horse
which should contain all the nutrition your horse requires.  
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·         You can add other seeds to provide extra protein, minerals, enzymes, natural vitamins, starch and oil Sunflower, fenugreek, Lupin or Mung Bean. Other feedfreedom.com users add Rosehip and other legumes to add flavour that their horses like. You can also add small amounts of Fenugreek, which is a very beneficial herb for horses.
·         Recommended Seed Mix – Sunflower is good for extra protein, starch and oil for condition, coats and hooves. Lupin also provides extra protein and starch. For horses replace 20% of the barley with 10% Sunflower and 10% Lupin, for ponies pure barley should be sufficient.
·         You also need to add a few Kg of roughage, cheap hay or straw is fine, and you can also use bran for example if you are concerned about respiratory issues.
·         Horse Medium work rate = 1½-2 biscuits per day + 3-4Kg Hay. (Addition of Sunflower & Lupin if required)
·         Please note every horse is an individual, and you should use the flexibility of using Fodder Solutions guidelines to find the right balance for your horse

Horses Feed Rate Approximate number of Horses fed by each feedfreedom unit
  kg/head/day iGro T12   T24 T36   T72   T90 T108 T126
Mini / Pony 4 6 12   24 36   72   90 108 126
Light Work <16h 8 3 6   12 18   36   45 54 63
Cutting, Trail Riding 8 3 6   12 18   36   45 54 63
Jumping, Dressage, 1 Day Eventers, Mare & Foal 12 2 4   8 12   24   30 36 42
Harness, Endurance, 3 Day Eventers, Racing 16 2 3   6 9   18   23 27 32
18H+ Heavy Horse 20 1 2   5 7   14   18 22 25
Thoroughbred Racing 24 1 2   4 6   12   15 18
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