Pony - a horse small and rather simple in leaving. A stomach at an animal according to his size too small therefore a lot of food does not demand. The correct dosage and quality of food when feeding a pony will help to keep health of the pet.
Features of feeding of a pony
The pony needs to feed 3-4 times a day in the small portions and not to forget at the same time about plentiful drink. 2 times a day that it did not lose the freshness are desirable to change water.
The sizes of portions are defined by physical activity and age of a horse. An important role in the choice of a forage is played also by the place of keeping of a pony - open air or a stall. The animal who the whole day is grazed on a meadow needs only drink and additives attributed by the veterinarian.
Ponies very much love sweet vegetables - sugar beet and juicy carrot. But if to go too far in fresh vegetables, the pet can have an indigestion. Therefore let sweet will be for a pony not a basis of a diet, but pleasant delicacy which 1-2 times a day gradually give.
As pony mouths
The full-fledged pasture of one animal requires 0.4 hectares of a meadow with a juicy grass. If in this territory there is no stream or the small river with a watering place, it is necessary to put a drinking bowl. Paula needs to clear constantly of harmful weeds, manure and garbage, otherwise the pony will refuse to eat a grass. When vegetation on a meadow is not enough, it is possible to add fresh hay to an animal diet. It is on sale in bales or bags. Upon purchase surely check whether hay grew mouldy! The dry grass is hung out on the special feeding troughs corresponding to growth of a pony.
Basic rules of feeding of a pony
- Feeding troughs, drinking bowls, a pasture and a stall it is necessary it is impossible to keep clean to give to a pony of candy, chocolate, sugar, fresh bread and fancy bread.· as delicacy for a pony it is possible to use apples, beet, carrots and special "yum-yum" for horses.· observe a diet, you feed a pony at the same time.
How to feed a pony in the winter
In hay there are not a lot of vitamins and nutrients, as in a fresh juicy grass. During those periods of year when the pony cannot eat on a pasture, it is necessary to give to an animal the specialized concentrated forage. Nutritious mixes contain ground barley, sunflower, colza, bran and soy together with vitamins and minerals. That the pony accidentally did not injure himself, choose a feeding trough from soft plastic or rubber. Such ware does not burst, forming sharp splinters, and with success maintains animal weight if the pony suddenly decides to lie down in a feeding trough. It is better to equip an autodrinking bowl which will constantly pump to an animal fresh flowing water in a stall. If you have no opportunity to make it, change water 1-2 times a day.