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How do you feed a foal without creep feeder

Our foal is due in April. I read that we should give it grain but also that we should not give it grain. That is confusing in itself. One article said to use a creep feeder. So far, we have none. Is...

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Re: How do you feed a foal without creep feeder

Most of the time the mare will let the foal eat with her, the only time to use a creep feeder is if she doesn't. You wouldn't want to seperate them, it might cause to much stress and then neither one...

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Re: How do you feed a foal without creep feeder

I use creep feeders. The creep feeder is placed in the mare/foal pasture so nobody is separated. The foal can go into the creep feeder and back to momma at thier own free will. The problem with my...

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Re: How do you feed a foal without creep feeder

Our foals eat with their dam.

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Re: How do you feed a foal without creep feeder

My mares let them eat with them, but I have one mare that I put a foal feeder on the stall door for the baby(because she would eat hers then eat baby's), with the little bars and everything. She...

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Re: How do you feed a foal without creep feeder

We have foal feeders on the wall right beside the big feeders in every stall. We feed the mares in the big feeders, and put a little in the foal feeders for the foals, starting when they are just a...

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Re: How do you feed a foal without creep feeder

I have one that was born this past Saturday, I do the same just stick a little bit of grain in her foal feeder, she has already figured out it is in there and is eating it. As she gets older I will...

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