What is the best feed for weanling?

For weanlings, feed a high energy 16% crude protein ration with minerals and vitamins included. Don’t over feed concentrates to weanlings as they will get too fat and are not ideal for sale or grass.

How do you take care of a weanling?

5 Tips for Feeding Weanlings

1. Nutritional Needs. From the time foals are weaned to the time they turn 1, the young horse is considered to be on the highest nutritional plane of its life.
2. Treat Each Horse Individually.
3. Stress and Decreased Feed Intake.
4. Exercise.
5. Record Keeping.
6. Take Home Message.

How much do weanling horses eat?

When to Wean a Foal To support smooth, steady growth, suckling foals should be offered one pound of a properly-formulated foal feed per month of age per day. For example, a 3-month-old would ideally be eating about three pounds of feed per day, in addition to milk and free choice hay or pasture.

How much hay does a weanling eat?

How MUCH Should You Feed a Weanling? A 6 month old weanling may be consuming 2.0-3.5% of bodyweight in feed and hay per day as fed and should be consuming about 70% concentrate and 30% forage. At 12 months of age, the growth rate will slow down to about 1-1.25 lb.

What should I feed my 10 month old horse?

FOAL FEEDING GUIDELINES

1. Provide high-quality roughage (hay and pasture) free choice.
2. Supplement with a high-quality, properly-balanced grain concentrate at weaning, or earlier if more rapid rates of gain are desired.

What should I feed my 6 month old horse?

6 months of age, feed up to 1# of foal ration per 100# body weight, plus at least 1# hay/100# weight. It is best to feed more hay, especially quality alfalfa hay. Overfeeding grain can cause a problem with the joints called epiphysitis; this occurs because of the low calcium and high energy in grains.

What should I feed my weanling colt?

The forage source should be a high quality mixed (alfalfa and grass) hay or a fine-stemmed alfalfa hay. Mixed hay is preferred because of the more ideal balance (ratio) of calcium to phosphorus. Hay should be offered to the weanling at a rate of approximately nine to ten pounds per day.

Can you wean a foal at 3 months?

Weaning foals at three or four months of age has not shown any negative effects. In some management systems, this is the standard time for weaning. When weaned before three months of age, a decrease in growth rate may be seen initially, but this usually self-corrects within three to four weeks of weaning.

What should I feed my 8 month old colt?

FOAL FEEDING GUIDELINES

• Provide high-quality roughage (hay and pasture) free choice.
• Supplement with a high-quality, properly-balanced grain concentrate at weaning, or earlier if more rapid rates of gain are desired.

What do you feed a weanling horse?

What do you feed a weanling foal?