This presents some challenges however.
L has become seriously overweight. I'd say...maybe...2 or 300 pounds overweight.
When we were competing we'd work a couple of hours every single day. And in peak shape she'll take your breath away. Sometimes we'd ride 6 or 8 miles just warming up. L has a very large capacity for work. She'll just go and go. And go. We were going to start endurance riding at one time. But that's another story.
She barely gets a third of a cup of grain for breakfast and dinner. We have no pasture so the rest of her diet is hay.
It's hard to keep her fit and I certainly don't have the stones anymore to do it under saddle.
So I'm putting her on a program. She'll get some more disciplined ground work. I'm talking about my discipline here. I need to more actively supervise her exercise.
And I got this:
Product review: So far it's just perfect! She's been eating too fast. And that's why she's getting as much hay as she's been getting. So I got that slow feed hay net a week or so ago and I'm just thrilled. She figured it out easily enough. It's slowed her way down so I can give her less hay and not only does it keep her busy she's also spending less time with an empty stomach. All kinds of wins. I have read that the net will break down and tear apart in 6 months to a year so I'll have to get a spare net to keep around.
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