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KYTrainer Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:18 pm Posts: 1715

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Guys! I have recently moved My horses that I’m training to a small red country barn. I’ve noticed that they have lost weight significantly! One of my best is at poor... I’m so worried! Help?

Barn: http://www.horseworldonline.net/farm/barn/97122
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KYTrainer wrote:
You need to give them some feed. Horses in pasture eat grass and many can maintain weight that way. Horses in barns need to be given food. On their profile page, on the left hand side, just under where the picture of a barn is you should see a box labelled feeding. Make sure to select food to give them. While in a barn, feeding a combined total of 100% will keep the horse at whatever body score it is currently at (unless it is less than 5 years old and still growing, then its score may drop). If you feed less than combined 100% the horse's weight will drop. If you feed greater than a combined 100% the horse will gain weight.

Also, you don't have to worry if you horse is underweight. Being under- or overweight only affects how well your horse does in shows. They won't be hurt by not being fed.
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Some of my horses won’t eat a combined total of 100%, and it says that their not eating enough for energy.
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KYTrainer wrote:Some of my horses won’t eat a combined total of 100%, and it says that their not eating enough for energy.
If you feed a horse that's under a year, it will be very difficult to keep enough feed going into their body, they just won't be able to eat enough.
If you decide to feed them hay, there are very few horses that can ingest enough hay to keep themselves properly fed.
Your key will be to use the weight gain formula.
If you need to put additional weight on, add to that the performance.
The feed will be eating from the first down (it's also alphabetically sorted), so your top feed will be fed first.
Keep watch on the total amount they can eat (just below the feed that you can choose to give them and the amount of sugar, fiber and protein, there's an area that will start with 'regular feed'). This area will tell you what they're ingesting and how much they can ingest. If the amount for what you want to feed them exceeds the amount they can ingest, this means they will likely loose weight (i.e. you're stuffing too much down their gullet).
In order to ensure their energy gets filled up properly (even if you choose to force your horse to loose weight), you will need to fulfill their sugar requirements for the day (the sugar bar has a green line on it, this is how much their body needs per day). You can use weight gain and corn to fulfill that sugar bar.
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KYTrainer wrote:Guys! I have recently moved My horses that I’m training to a small red country barn. I’ve noticed that they have lost weight significantly! One of my best is at poor... I’m so worried! Help?

Barn: http://www.horseworldonline.net/farm/barn/97122
HELP ME PLEASE
If they are young I would recommend putting them into a field and giving them gain weight mix as well. As you can see I do that and most of my horses are very fat :lol: :lol: :lol:
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