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The Blue Cross Fat Pack is your essential guide to weight management, containing everything you need to know to keep your horse at a healthy weight.

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Fat Horse Slim

GREEN ALERT! My horse is a healthy weight

If you have reduced from an Amber or a Red body score you deserve to be proud of your work!

Do’s and don’ts for successful weight control

 

  • Do keep using the weigh-tape.
  • Do record the score and weight so the weight does not creep up year-on-year.
  • Do keep up the exercise, especially in the summer.
  • Do use the experience of knowledgeable people, especially your vet and farrier, to help you monitor any changes.
  • Do take regular photos and compare them with old ones.
  • Do use low energy, high fi bre foods.
  • Do keep using a high specifi cation balancer if you are restricting grazing.
  • Don’t just monitor weight – you need to check body score as well.
  • Don’t listen to people who tell you that your horse is thin if you know he is a healthy weight.

For a detailed guide to goal setting, what to feed, calculating diet, exercise and management, read the full 28 page guide in the Fat Pack.