Easy to adjust—to hay quality and horse bellies ... 😉
Regarding Frequency and changes in feeding times: Based on our own experience, we recommend that you give the horses as many meals as possible to keep breaks short.
Depending on the hay quality and how big the horses' bellies are, we might find ourselves needing to adjust our 12 daily feeding times by 5 minutes each, several times a year. This adds up to an hour more or less eating time each day. Even just that one hour difference has an amazing effect on how big the horses get.
Thanks to these subtle changes in feeding times, just a few minutes per meal, it's much easier for horses to adjust. This is way better than suddenly skipping a whole feeding or adding an extra one, which can quickly make horses confused, unsure, and frustrated.
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Example time-controlled hay feeding for horses that gain weight easily
(e.g., Northern horses, ponies, overweight horses at risk of health problems)No. from until feeding time meal break 1 8:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 2 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 3 12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 4 2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 5 4:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 6 6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 7 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 8 10:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 9 midnight 12:30 a.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 10 2:00 a.m. 2:30 a.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 11 4:00 a.m. 4:30 a.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes 12 6:00 a.m. 6:30 a.m. 30 minutes 90 minutes total time 6 hours