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Feeding Guide
Calculate your ration
How to use the calculator
- 1Enter your horse or pony's bodyweight. If you need guidance on how to use a weightape, use our step by step guide
- 2Choose the product which you will be feeding your horse or pony with.
- 3Based on your chosen product. You will be asked at most two more questions. Choose the most relevant option and click calculate to view your results. This will be shown in kg and no of scoops.
Ration Calculator
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The amount of feed your horse/pony requires per day:
Contact our dedicated Care-Line on 01908 226626 between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday for helpful nutritional advice, or email us using the link below.
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Total Daily Feed Intake
The following table can be used as a guide to estimating your horse/ pony’s total daily feed requirements but regular body condition scoring is a useful and more practical way of assessing whether they may need to increase or decrease their daily intake.
Total Daily Appetite (% bodyweight/ day) Overweight 1.5 Maintenance
Pregnant mares (1-8 months)
Light work2 Medium work 2.25 Underweight
Heavy work
Pregnant mares (9-11 months)
Lactating mares
Breeding stallions2.5 -
Forage
Forage should be the foundation of every horse/ pony’s diet and fed ad-lib (as much as they will eat) where ever possible. For good doers, total forage intake should not be restricted to less than 1.5% of bodyweight (DM) per day. Visit the FAQ’s for tips on how to feed forage.
Height (hh) Approximate weight (kg) Minimum daily forage intake (kg/ day DM including grazing) 10-11.3 150-200 2.5-3 12-12.3 200-250 3-4 13-13.3 300-350 4.5-5 14-14.3 400-450 6-7 15-15.3 500-550 7.5-8 -
Compound Feeds
Compound feeds (mixes and cubes) are formulated to provide a balanced diet when fed at the recommended ration in conjunction with suitable forage.
The following table can be used a guide to for calculating the level of feed required to provide a balanced diet for horses at rest or in light work.
Height (hh) Approximate weight (kg) Recommended ration of compound feed (kg/ day) 12-12.3 200-250 1-1.5 13-13.3 300-350 2 14-14.3 400-450 2.5-3 15-15.3 500-550 3-3.5 16-16.3 600-650 3.5-4 -
Balancer Feeding Rates
With the exception of SPILLERS GRO ‘N WIN®, all SPILLERS® Balancers are designed to be fed at a rate of 100g per 100kg of per day if fed alongside forage alone.
Height (hh) Approximate weight (kg) SPILLERS® Balancer fed alongside forage only (g/ day) SPILLERS® Balancer fed alongside compound feed (g/ day)* 12-12.3 200-250 200 100 13-13.3 300-350 300 200 14-14.3 400-450 400 300 15-15.3 500-550 500 400 16-16.3 600-650 600 500 *As a guide we recommend feeding half the balancer if feeding half of the recommend ration of compound feed.
SPILLERS GRO ‘N WIN® Feeding Rates – Pregnant & Lactating Mares
Height (hh) Approximate weight (kg) Pregnant (9-11 months) Lactating (1-3 months) Lactating (4-6 months) 12-12.3 200-250 400g 600g 400g 13-13.3 300-350 600g 900g 600g 14-14.3 400-450 800g 1.2kg 800g 15-15.3 500-550 1kg 1.5kg 1kg 16-16.3 600-650 1.2kg 1.8kg 1.2kg SPILLERS GRO ‘N WIN® Feeding Rates – Growing Horses
Estimated adult bodyweight (kg) 3-6 months 6-18 months 18-24 months 200-250 200g 400g 200g 300-350 300g 600g 300g 400-450 400g 800g 400g 500-550 500g 1kg 500g 600-650 600g 1.2kg 600g -
Weighing your Feed
Horses are fed by weight not volume. As the density of feeds and forage varies considerably, we would always recommend them regularly. However the following table can be used as a guide.
Approximate Weight Approximate Weight Stubbs scoop (2.5l) Section of hay (small rectangular bale) 2kg Bale of hay (small rectangular bale) 20kg Small bale of haylage 200kg Large bale of haylage 25kg Cubes 1.8-2.3 Mix 1.5 SPILLERS® Fibre 500-600g Chopped Fibre (such as alfalfa/ alfalfa & straw without pellets) 300-400g Molassed chaff 250g
Care-Line
Contact our dedicated Care-Line between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday for help with nutritional advice.
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