How much does it cost to feed a horse?

Answer 1

If you're racing, there is a very fine line to getting optimal peformance out of these horses which if you make a mistake it can have disasterous concequences, you must find an expert in that particular field. If you just happened to buy a thoughbred and ride them occasionally, feed them like any other horse. Look at 'what are all of the kinds of horse feed'.

Answer 2

You should feed a horse between 1.5% and 3% of it's body-weight in feed daily. For example you would need to feed an average 1,000 pound horse 15 to 30 pounds of food a day based on those percentages.

Answer 3

Itall deoends how much you feed your horse. I feed my horse twice a day and he gets half a scoop of pasture mix, half a scoop of honeychop and half a scoop of sugarbeet and this costs me £20 a month

Answer 4

This depends on what you feed them. If you keep the horse out to pasture, supposing he has enough grass to eat, you need only pay for the land. If you feed hay, it depends on whether you buy it in rolls or bales (bales are more expensive per pound) and how the crops were that year. Poor crops lead to less hay, and higher prices. Good crops means more hay and therefore lower prices. And the grain varies from brand to brand. And if you add supplements, it varies greatly on what kind of supplement you use.

So no one can actually give you a specific price, as it varies too much.

Answer 5

You should always feed a horse based on bodyweight 1.5% to 3% of a horses bodyweight should be fed daily. The majority of which should be forages, such as grass and / or hay. Grains and concentrated feeds should only be added if the horse truly needs them.

Answer 6

This will depend on the horses weight and workload.

Most draft horses are in low to moderate work unless they do pulling competitions or are in full time work.

A draft horse typically weighs from 1400 to 3000 pounds and should be fed at a rate of 1.5 to 3% of their body weight. That means for a 1400 pound horse 21 to 42 pounds of feed a day and for a horse that's 3000 pounds 45 to 90 pounds of feed.

The bulk of a draft horses diet should always be good grass hay, and possibly a hard feed to add energy and fat to the diet. Call a local feed store and get prices on their hay and the weight of the bales.

Figure out how much hay the horse would need to eat based on body weight and then multiply that by 365 to get a yearly total. Once you have that yearly total divide that weight by the weight of the bales to get the number of bales you will need. Once that is done you can add up the cost of the hay and divide that by 365 to get a daily price. don't forget to add in bagged feed if it's needed.

As an example I'll use a 2000 pound horse (about average for a draft.)

2000 divide by 100= 20 x 2.0=40 (pounds of feed daily. I'll only use hay, no bagged feed.) 40x 365= 14,600 pounds of hay a year. Now say my bales are 50 pound small square bales at $6 per bale. 14,600 divide by 50=292 bales. 292x$6= $1,752 yearly cost. $1,752 divide by 365=$4.80 a day in hay. This formula will vary according to how much the horse weighs, how much you feed, size of the hay bales, and price of the bales.

Answer 7

The cost to feed a horse varies greatly from one person to another due to cost of feed in that area and what the horse eats. As a couple of examples:

1. I have one horse who does great on grass hay and a ration balancer. Hay per year for this horse costs me $960 (I buy 16, 600 pound round bales at $60 a bale or Bermuda hay) The ration balancer cost me $758.77 per year at $32.99 per 40 pound bag. Total for this horse per year is $ 1,718.77

2. A second horse is as follows: Hay $2061 for 229 small square bales of grass mix hay (horse can't eat Bermuda hay.) Grain cost me $1,209.56 per year for 44 bags of performance feed at $27.49 per bag. Total is $3,270.56 for this horse per year.

Total for both per year $4,989.33

Answer 8

it really depends on..

how big the horse is

what u are doing with the horse (riding, cart, ect and how long?)

any suplements?

Answer 9

Some bags of feed can range from $20.00-50.00