FOOD THEY EAT

Horse nuts or mixes - these are specially prepared foods, comprising many of the basic feeds, there are different types designed to meet the nutritional needs of various horses with different exercising routines
* Linseed - is high in protein and only a handful should be fed with a feed. It is poisonous raw so MUST be cooked first
* Maize - this should be flaked and cooked to make it easier to digest
* Molichaff or Mollichop - is a mixture of chaff and molasses, used to add bulk to the food and the molasses makes it more appetising
* Oats - they are easily digested if fed crushed, rolled or cooked. They are a high energy food and excessive feeding of oats can cause exuberance in some horses
* Root vegetables - such as beetroot, carrots, parsnips, swedes and turnips can be fed but in small quantities. They should be cut into strips, rather than round pieces as they can become lodged in the throat. Shredded vegetables are also avoided by worms.
* Salt - fed in small quantities in the feed helps to aid digestion
* Seaweed - is good for young horses
dont forget alfalfa and oat hay!
Horses should be fed at regular times and should be given a few hours between a hard feed and carrying out strenuous exercise.
Water should always be available to both the grass kept and stabled horse or pony and it is particularly important that it is available prior to feeding.
also hay
They are grazers, herbivores, they eat grass.


And The smaller the area, the more visible and substantial a fence needs to be. For exercise alone, a pen, run, corral or "dry lot" without forage can be much smaller than a pasture, and this is a common way that many horses are managed; kept in a barn with a turnout run, or in a dry lot with a shelter, feeding hay, allowing either no pasture access, or grazing for only a few hours per day.