what to feed your horse
1 Select healthy vegetables and fruits as treats â these taste good to your horse and are usually close to foods they eat in their normal diet, so chances of digestive upset are reduced. 2  Feed only a small amount. 3  Feeding your horse 15 large carrots at a time may create more of a meal than a treat.
Structural carbohydrates, like hay and grass, are essential to a horseâs diet. Horses eat large quantities of hay and grass as their main source of food. In fact, horses should eat about 15-20 pounds or 1-2% of their body weight in hay every day, so make sure that your horse always has plenty of hay to chew on.
Now let me add one more comment to the mix: A horse kept in a stall or pasture field also needs to drink plenty of clean water. Red Cal is a great free supplement choice I use not only for good mineral quality for horses, but the added insurance of Red Cal natural balance requires the horse to drink plenty of water.