What diet is your draft on?

I live in Florida where the dirt is sand at best. We worry about coilic quite a but down here. I would like to here from some Draft owners and the diet they have their drafs on.

I posted on the other thread but here it goes again. The geldings get soaked beet pulp w/o molasses, soaked alfalfa cubes and vegetable or coconut oil. Mineral & salt are free choice. Hay is mixed grass--usually about 2 small bales a day. Since they are only 20mths and still growing, I'll probably keep them on this combo for a while. (If our grass doesn't start growing better than it is, we'll be on the hay all summer too!)

I have round bales of grass hay out all the time, 12 months of the year. In summer the grazing is so-so here, its all sand and we never get a lush pasture. In winter I supplement with a flake of alfalfa in the morning.

I cannot feed my gelding anything besides long stemmed forage. He has a cleft palate and grain or small particles come right out his nose.

My filly gets 5 lbs of junior feed in a molasses free pellet form and 2 pounds of clean oats, divided into 2 feedings a day.

I keep clean water, white and mineral salt licks and crystalix tubs in the pasture all the time.

Do NOT feed drafts a sweet feed containing molasses.

I'm lucky in that I have a pretty nice lush pasture for both my belgian cross and pinto draft cross. Jake the belgian-x is such an easy keeper in that he gets a minimal amount of Triple Crown low starch each day with a hoof supplement mixed in and all the mixed grass hay he wants plus he's out on pasture 24x7. Dai gets Triple Crown senior (she's 20+) plus free choice hay plus pasture.

My big guy is on a grass/alfalfa mix and he gets a cup of roasted soybeans every day. We have nice pastures about five-six months out of the year around here as well.

My mare gets great quality timothy hay (I'm not sure the exact amount becase she's boarded), as well as an all-round vitamin supplement. If she was ridden more heavily, she'd be getting some sort of light feed as well. But as it is she's ridden about 3-4 hours a week, and almost never to a sweat, so I'm not too worried.

My Shire gelding [who's a REALLY easy keeper] has free choice access to a mineral lick, 3 hours of lush pasture daily [slowly building up to all day - in summer he's on pasture 24/7]. He gets about 1.5lbs of a Ration Balancer daily, along with around 20-25 pounds of good quality grass hay.

My Clyde cross gelding is on pasture 24/7 and free choice timothy/alfalfa mix, I just keep the feeder full at all times. That's it for him because he's overweight. My 1/2 Shire mare, who came to me malnourished and is currently nursing a foal, is on 24/7 pasture and the free choice hay, plus 2 quarts Nutrena Safechoice, 1 quart Nutrena Life Design Mare and Foal am and pm, and a Smartpack supplement custom mixed (I think it's mostly Smartflex II for her arthritis though). My yearling 3/4 Shire colt is on 24/7 pasture, free choice hay, and 1 quart Nutrena Safechoice and 1 quart Legends Grow and Perform growth formula am and pm. My suckling 3/4 Shire filly is just on mama's milk and what grass she gets mimicking mama. :) All the horses have free choice mineral and salt as well.

My 5 yr old, 18 hd. Draft cross gets free choice grass hay (in CA we have Bermuda, orchard or Timothy), 2 lbs of Purina Strategy pellets twice a day, 1/2 cup flax meal (great for their coat), a mineral salt lick and when we have it, pasture.

My Belgian is on the "eat as much hay as you can before the other horses can then stand around all day getting fat" diet. ROFL!
I feed square bales in hay feeders twice a day in the winter lot this time of year. The horses go out on pasture sometime in May, depending on when the grass is at 6-8" tall. Sunshine gets a small handful of Tribute Kalm Ultra, a scoop of Kent Equigizer and a probiotic once a day. She has a real shiny coat and is overweight. I really need to work her more!