Ration calculator
The more precise your figures, the more reliable the result. Only the weight and the target weight are required. Everything else refines the calculation.
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Your horse
Used for the ideal-weight suggestion.
Weighed, or estimated with a weight tape. Better honest than flattering.
The whole requirement is calculated from this weight, not from the current one.
Determines how much forage the horse can actually take in.
Movement in the housing system raises the energy requirement noticeably, in an open barn by about 15 %.
If you know how much hay your horse actually eats in 24 hours, enter it here. Otherwise we estimate it from the target weight and the body shape.
Measured appetite limit
How to measure: Offer weighed hay separately over 6 hours, weigh back what is left, scale up to 16 hours. Best repeated three times.
Health
Lowers the tolerated amount of starch and steers the recommendation towards cereal-free mineral supplements.
What is not possible
Not every yard has clean straw, and not every horse tolerates everything. Anything you rule out here will not appear in the plan.
Turnout
For an overweight horse this is the single biggest lever there is. If the yard turns the whole herd out together, we work around the grass instead.