If you honestly think it is hard to keep weight on an old horse, you are out of your mind! I have worked on MANY horse farms for years. We have one horse approaching 30 who is a perfect weight, and it doesn't take much but a third of a scoop a day, hay, and grass. \r
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At the vet science place I work at we have numerous horses in their mid twenties. One is a stallion who is just about the perfect weight. Another is a mare who has been diagnosed with ring bone. The stud gets two scoops, twice a day, of a mix of pellets and oats with oil. The mare, in the Jerry Atrich field, gets a scoop twice a day (administered in a long line of buckets for a large field of old horses) with the mix of pellets and oil. You'd be hard pressed to find a skinny horse on our farm, and we have about 370 head of horses. So hop off your high horses saying it's SO hard to keep weight on an old guy. It's really not. Proper nutrition does the trick. True, some horses need extra attention, but there is NO reason an old horse should be under weight just because ""he's old and he can't keep weight on like he used to.""\r
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That is all. Can't wait for the court date.
Pros: Ready for that court date, hope you'll all be prosecuted.
Cons: Staff is no good, horses are too thin.
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