Feeding In the Field

As we have very little grass left in the paddock we are of course feeding the horses and ponies a lot of food, like haylage and they all get a hard feed. Here is Madeline with her haylage, she loves haylage and is nearly always the first to get her food, this is because she is the boss of herd so she shoos all of the others away from the food, until she has got hers.

Here is Pip and as you can see he thinks he needs some more hard feed, he really doesn’t. Pip has plenty of grass in his part of the paddock, but he still gets some hard feed and haylage just to keep him happy, because when he sees the others having their food he wants to try some of it, and who can blame him.

And here is Niko with his haylage, as you can see quite clearly there is some grass behind him, but our horses and ponies won’t eat the tussocks of grass I have no idea why but they just don’t eat them. Anyway Niko is having two hard feeds a day while everyone else is having one a day, Niko is having two a day because he was looking a bit thin, but he is already looking a bit better.

Last but not least Murphy, and hey why eat all that costly haylage when you can just lay in it, Murphy isn’t all that interested in the haylage and prefers to look for tasty weeds to eat, this is probably just as well because he is quite small and gets chased away from his food quite a lot by the horses. Luckily for Murphy Madeline lets him get a way with almost anything, if it was Niko misbehaving she would probably try and kick him.

Thank you all for commenting on my last post, glad you all liked the photo of Niko.