Keeping temperament static

[suou]

I know how to change a horse's temperament, but I'm struggling to keep it static.

I'm aiming to keep certain horses calm and even-tempered, but no matter what I do, they eventually become bombproof and spirited.

I've tried keeping the protein, fibre and sugar bars as even as I can make them, but either fibre or sugar ends up with a little more, and then the temperament starts changing! Is there a specific food combo I've just totally missed, or something else?

I have access to barns and pastures.

These are the horses in question if it helps
Note: their feed mixes may not look very "even" when viewing! I'm always changing them to keep them at the desired temperament :3c

https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/4553769
https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/4553390
https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/4538128

Thanks for the help!

[BlackOak2]

I know how to change a horse's temperament, but I'm struggling to keep it static.

I'm aiming to keep certain horses calm and even-tempered, but no matter what I do, they eventually become bombproof and spirited.

I've tried keeping the protein, fibre and sugar bars as even as I can make them, but either fibre or sugar ends up with a little more, and then the temperament starts changing! Is there a specific food combo I've just totally missed, or something else?

I have access to barns and pastures.

These are the horses in question if it helps
Note: their feed mixes may not look very "even" when viewing! I'm always changing them to keep them at the desired temperament :3c

https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/4553769
https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/4553390
https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/4538128

Thanks for the help!

This is something we all struggle with.

But it also seems like you've been looking and studying the feed bars for awhile now.

Here's my advice.
First, every horse will be a little different. One horse might require a little more sugar to keep stable, another might require a little more fiber.
For the most part, take a close look when you tick up and tick down the food percentages. When you use the alfalfa cubes, it will add to sugar, but not much. So when you combine say the cubes with the performance, try to count the times you tick up through the green. You'll use the cubes to tick up the fiber. The moment it turns green, switch to the performance and tick up until the sugar turns green. Then switch back to the cubes and tick downward until your fiber switches to not green. You'll notice that your ticks upward for the fiber has been increased by the performance.

I find that between two and four ticks of fiber in the green and between two and four ticks of sugar in the green is about where you'll want it to stabilize your horse. That said, some of the horses I've tried, still do move through the temperaments. So sometimes they'll still need adjusting by single ticks up and down. But it's at a much slower rate. I've also had a few horses that won't move out of their temperament, but whether that's just that they have a lot of movement within their temps or whether that's because they've been officially stabilized... I'm not sure.

Protein is supposed to help move temp either up or downward, but it's also a good source of filling up the other necessary percentages to get to 100%. I would suggest either cubes and performance or cubes and weight gain. I find that combo is easiest to work with. But you might fined cubes, performance and weight gain or cubes, performance and another choice works better for adjustments for you.

Does that make sense?

[BlackOak2]

As a last note, although practicing is important, only current competition horses (as well as grinders, but to a lesser degree) are important to help keep temp at a desired level. All other horses, temp is meaningless to alter for us. As an FYI, if you haven't already picked up on that.

[suou]

This makes a lot of sense, thanks so much!
I'll start testing it out, and hopefully see some results (: