Is it OK to feed a 1 and 1/2 month old filly mare and foal sweet feed?
It is perfectly fine to feed them sweet feed. That is what many of the mare and foal feeds are anyways. The amount of grain that the foal is eating right now should not be enough to colic her. The big thing that you need to do is to find out how much protein that the feed has in it. Too much protein on a young horse can cause them to grow too quickly which can cause them to be more likely to get developmental diseases (OCDs). That is a HUGE problem. A 14% is ideal, a 16% is ok if in moderation, but any higher than that may cause a problem. I do not know what feed stores you have around, or what brand of feed that you are feeding, but QUALITY is more important than QUANTITY. That means if you are feeding a lower end feed, that the horse will have to have more quantity, which in turn could cause problems of its own by the horse receiving too much in their diet. If the feed is a higher quality, then the quantity is less, and the chances of having problems are less. An adult horse should e
