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Written by Mary Anne Miller
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Page 1 of 4  Once you get a horse, you will hear terms like easy keeper, and hard keeper. An "easy keeper" is a horse that keeps good weight on him, and doesn't have to have a special controlled program in feeding. A "hard keeper" is a horse that will not gain weight easily, he could be ribby or wormy. But chances are he just isn't on the right eating program. The woman who wrote the following article, is someone who I value highly, her skill around horses, her knowledge and her wisdom. She was instrumental in helping me early on with my guys and she runs a successful website for horse lovers- that address appears below the article. My thanks to Mec for allowing me to use this article...
FEEDING HORSES
SAFELY
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Yes, I consider the feeding of horses a safety tip!
Various problems can be caused by poor feeding techniques including colic of the
horse, laminitis or founder, excess energy, and a myriad of other miscellaneous
problems.
In my mind, there are two very important items to keep in mind when feeding
horses. The first would be to understand how the horse evolved on the plains and
what it lived on. The second would be the old horseman's term of "feeding by
eye". Let me go into a bit on the "feeding by eye" first. If your horse has a
"cresty neck", and quite a bit of fat built up along its back and croup, chances
are it is an "easy keeper" and overweight. If you can see the ribs clearly
defined and the hipbones and maybe even some of the spinal processes, then your
horse is getting close to dangerously underweight.
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