Fat Horse Slim
Amber alert - my horse is overweight
This chapter is for horses that are overweight but not at as much risk as red-alert horses. Any horse at body score 4 or more is overweight.
You may like the look of this body score, and you may still choose to keep your horse like this, but don’t fool yourself that it is a healthy condition for any prolonged period of time. The only time a body score of 4 may be acceptable is if it is the top of a range of weights the horse goes through, and you are certain that the weight will come off later.
Just come from the red-alert diet? Well done for getting this far – you have to hold your nerve; it would be easy to slip back into your old ways and lose all the progress you have made.
