Horse Feed
Estimate daily forage and grain amounts as body-weight percentages.
About Horse Feed
Horses eat roughly two percent of their body weight in forage daily, with grain added only when work or condition demands. Forage is the foundation of horse nutrition, and underestimating hay needed leads to colic risk and surprise winter costs.
Formula
Horse Feed
Feed = horse weight x daily percentage; forage/year = daily x 365 / 1000
- forage percent
- Hay or pasture as a share of body weight per day
Worked example
With the default values below, Horse Feed returns Forage per Day of 11.00. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Horse weightminimum 50 kg
- 550 kg
- Forage per dayaccepts 0–4 %
- 2 %
- Grain (concentrate)accepts 0–2 %
- 0 %
Results
- Forage per Day
- 11.00 kg
- Grain per Day
- 0.00 kg
- Forage per Year
- 4.0 t
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Horse Feed
- 3Forage per Day= 11.00 kg
- 4Grain per Day= 0.00 kg
- 5Forage per Year= 4.0 t
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 3 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Horse Feed calculated?
Feed = horse weight x daily percentage; forage/year = daily x 365 / 1000 Horses eat roughly two percent of their body weight in forage daily, with grain added only when work or condition demands.
Why does Horse Feed matter?
Forage is the foundation of horse nutrition, and underestimating hay needed leads to colic risk and surprise winter costs.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 3 inputs: Horse weight, Forage per day, Grain (concentrate). The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.