Horse of the Quarter - Casper
Each quarter we bring you a case study from the Dengie Feedline so you can see the recommended feeding regimes and how successful they have been. Don’t forget that you can view lots of case studies on the Dengie website under each of the product pages. This quarter we meet Casper.
Casper is an 8-year-old, 15hh Irish sport horse cross who has been owned by Nikki Lawton since 2005. Casper is a typical good doer in that he piles on the pounds during the spring and summer months and, as if the grass wasn’t a big enough problem, Nikki’s yard would only supply haylage for when Casper was stabled.
To help control his bodyweight Casper wears a grazing muzzle in the summer to restrict his grass intake during the day and when stabled, Nikki now replaces some of Casper’s haylage with Dengie Hi-Fi Good Do-er as a lower calorie option. Hi-Fi Good Do-er combines top quality straw with alfalfa, a light molasses coating and added vitamins and minerals. Hi-Fi Good Do-er can be used as a bucket feed or can be fed to partially or totally replace forage. This can be particularly useful for horses like Casper who only have access to good quality haylage as Hi-Fi Good Do-er usually provides far fewer calories.
Nikki finds the flexibility of a fibre based ration key to keeping Casper looking his best. Casper loves his Hi-Fi Good Do-er and in the summer every time he goes in the stable he is on the look out for his Good Do-er and actually tucks into it before starting on his haylage! As a recent picture shows, Casper doesn’t look like the same horse Nikki purchased back in 2005!
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