dedicated to two horses we saw in Adelaide yesterday...
One poor darling thing morbidly obese and the other with
hind gut acidosis and laminitic rings...and the supposed coaches couldn't even tell!!! 

We must read more.

So many times I hear "but I only feed a handful" when the horse is a 9 on the Henneke Scale. 

I also hear that the only way to put on weight is with grain and sweet feed.  Well if you look below you'll see it's quite obvious the most fattening food is OIL.  It also does not have all the massive problems associated with grain (pellets are made of grain remember!) such as acidosis, laminitis and ulcers.

Grain (pellets) does not have many more calories than hay!  But with SO MANY problems!  If your horse is skinny this chart obviously shows you to chop up your hay and put a little oil in there for sheer calories.

The following from Beth A. Valentine, DVM, PhD.  To go to the full article click here