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So what she needs to do is soak my hay for 12 hours and then let me have enough so that there is always a wee bit left when she comes to give me my next lot. Soaking hay for 12 hours gets rid of most of the calories, but it also leaches out the protein, vits and mins…so I need a balancer, (shhhh don’t tell anyone but I swear by Ultimate Balancer….. it has loads of stuff in it, but is so low in calories and gives me little or no starch so I can just keep eating my fibre).


When are we old?


The researcher who found that we need more and different nutrients back in the 1980s, (Professor Sarah Ralston) has done more work; she now knows that because we are looked after so much better that the different nutrient requirements don’t exist. Really we only need a special feed like 16+ when we show signs of ageing such as weight loss, problems chewing and stiffness.


folk, he’s started quidding and his muscle tone is going, well his owner doesn’t ride him anymore and you know what they say, ‘if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it’. I’m hoping my ‘Missus’ gets his Mum to call the D&H helpline to chat about hay replacers.


The best ones I know about are


• High Fibre Nuts (dampened just to make them soft)


• Kwick Beet or unmolassed sugar beet shreds


• Alfalfa chaff or Just Grass (no straw chaffs, can’t chew them well enough)


One Day Event Burton Hunt Branch Of The Pony Club


Photos by Julia Shearwood


• Start with a small handful of each in a feed bucket and gradually increase over 14 days


• Probably will need 600g/100kgBW (bodyweight) of each product, so you are eating 1.8% of your bodyweight as forage


• Remind your Mum that this is the equivalent of half a bale of hay a day, so there will be loads, but we need that amount!


It was a long wait, but worth it. This popular annual fixture, organised by the Burton Pony Club, was originally planned for early July but had to be postponed because of wet weather.


Despite competition from the Riding Club Championships at the nearby Lincolnshire Showground and other fixtures, this one day event attracted nearly one hundred and fifty entries from a very wide area.


• If you’ve got diastemas (and the latest work from Liverpool University found that 43% of us do) then you can’t eat short or long fibre it just gets stuck!!)


Work carried out by a team at Liverpool University Vet School, Leahurst (supported by The Horses Trust) was presented by Jo Ireland at BEVA. She researched a group of old horses to characterise what being old in horse terms means.....humph.


Did you know?


• 96% of old horses had dental abnormalities (average age = 20 years but varied between 15-40 years)


Don’t know if you had time to see the BBC programme on the ‘Young Ones’? It followed humans aged between70 and mid-80s and showed how, by taking a positive attitude, moving more, being independent, having to think for oneself and not being mollycoddled; improved their cognitive and fitness levels within just one week!!


So to keep me sprightly, please treat me like a younger horse, whilst keeping an eagle eye for me getting too fat or stiff........


• 26% are overweight, with only 4.5% being underweight


• Scarily 49% were lame in trot.... and their owners often didn’t realise


Guess the most significant effect on us in terms of what makes us old, is when the old teeth wear out. Then we can’t eat hay anymore and it doesn’t really matter what fancy feed they give us; it is VITAL that they sort out a fibre replacer first.


I’ve a stable mate, who is 30, and I have to keep an eye out for the old


• 18% had curly coats (hirsutism) • 80% had hoof abnormalities


It’s not complicated really being old, (middle aged)…..just keep us warm and give us shelter, loads of low calorie forage, a decent feed balancer. If we are unable to eat forage then get us onto a hay replacer and an old horse diet. In light of that new survey, then please get my teeth and feet done regularly by a professional; also get the vet to do me a MOT every year, even if there appears to be nothing wrong; prevention is better than cure


Let us keep moving around and please don’t make us fat; it shortens our life and me, well I’ve loads of rosettes yet to win and a filly or two to meet.


Classes included one at Level 5 (1.15m) in the Pony Club Open Eventing League series sponsored by Likit, where competitors included riders from Norfolk and Warwickshire as well as some from the East Midlands area. The winner was a local rider, Emma


Scarlet Meade & Copper Creek


Sanders who is a member of the Burton Hunt Branch of the Pony Club. Emma has had a busy summer, having been in the branch’s winning team in the Pony Club team show jumping competition at the Burghley Horse Trials and, along with third-placed Louise Bingham, represented her branch at the Pony Club’s national show jumping championships. In second place was Stephanie Elliott from the North Warwickshire Pony Club who is in the running for the top prize in the league.


The competition was also supported by the Centre for British Teachers who awarded a trophy to the highest placed competitors in the Pony Club sections who attend a school in Lincolnshire.


Susan Wilkinson


Jessica Saxby & Merlin


Louise


Bingham & Nearly Noir


Emma Sanders & Cowgirl


Class 5 prize winners


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