She’s also almost 1000 lbs now! I want to get 200-300 more on her before winter because she’ll lose some when the cold comes in.
I’m really starting to think that she’ll be able to be ridden come spring. Her energy is great, she’s using all of her muscles daily, and is really starting to look good (despite the dirt)
Go Sandy!
Hell yeah!
Damn how many times 300lbs is that in hay and grain?
I’m bad at math so idk lol. 300lbs is my hope for her. If she can go into winter chubby, she won’t come out of it skin and bones like last year. She was barely 700 lbs in January and a lot of folks thought she was gonna die
Oof sorry to hear that. I only had two foals growing up but they took on weight just fine. Also I was a kid so if they didn’t I probably wouldn’t remember
Ah okay. Sandy is 26 so she’s the opposite of a foal lol. Weight issues are par for the course with old horses, but it seems like Sandy’s on the right track finally.
If 3500 calories per pound of fat, and 970 calories per pound of hay, then Sandy needs an excess of 1350 pounds of hay in addition to the hay required to maintain her weight
I think. I’m terrible at math guys
She’s on a weight gain supplement and has a high calorie feed so that would go into that math somehow too lol
Okay I actually looked into it and it seems senior horses need much more than 3500calories per pound of gained weight, and you’re looking at roughly 55 days before winter truly sets in (in my area and ignoring snow days/weeks). So she’d need just under 5.5pounds/day gained and I don’t think you’ll get there lol.
She’s in good hands though! She’ll definitely survive this winter with you keeping an eye over her :)
Ah fuck I didn’t realize winter was so close. My sense of time has been shit lately lol. She definitely won’t lose anything before winter with how much food she has access to lol. I’m honestly surprised that I was able to get her up to a weight that’s ideal for her breed. I figured she’d always be a lil skinny, but here we are lol.
