RECENT good weather has provided ideal conditions for grass growth. Although farmers around the country are delighted, this isn’t ideal for horses out grazing. Nutrition experts from Spillers recently warned horse owners of the risk of obesity and provided some guidelines to help prevent your horse getting overweight.

It is thought that rates of obesity in some populations of ponies is as high as 70%, it’s invariably weight loss rather than weight gain is needed to keep most of our horses healthy and this means cutting back on the grass.