HELP! Horse being an idiot during feeding >.<

When I start splitting up his meals during the day, do I need to do do it gradually?

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I wouldn't worry about doing it gradually to split his meals. I would just go ahead and cut it in half, twice a day.

And for what its worth, my own opinion would be to loose the bran and some of the oats. Oats will not help with weight gain and between the two this is just a lot of un-balanced feed being added. I also did not see that you were feeding any kind of grain? I would get him on a quality low starch senior feed or complete feed and work in 3-6 quarts as well.

Continuing with the "for what its worth" three of my Thoroughbreds are eating 4 cups beet pulp, 4 cups alfalfa, a bit of oats and 3 Quarts of a low starch-high fat Tribute feed. (Split into AM and PM feeding) The fourth Thoroughbred, who is 20, picky, slow eating and hard to keep weight on eats triple this amount and is "hand grazed" as well as on free choice 2nd cut mostly alfalfa hay (his "grain" is fed 3-4 times daily).

You can also try Max E Glo rice bran, works well and a cup of corn oil.

Thanks! He is not on a complete feed because of the soy. Hence me giving the natural feed

What do you call oats??

LOL I think she meant like sweet feed or complete feed pellets.

I figured someone would have to comment and couldn't just gather the question like apparently the OP whom I was asking could - lack of better words. But Oats do little to put weight on, I was asking if she had him on anything high in fat. I prefer a quality pelleted feed (NO SWEETFEED) but even corn would help in weight vrs. The oats.

Doesn't corn have a heating effect and a lot of starch?

...But in lines of weight corn does considerably more than oats was my point. I have from time to time used corn for a few weeks to get weight on. Of course you do not have to use corn, complete feed or any other kind of feed. I simply stated what the five Thoroughbreds here eat or what I've done to get some of the rescues to gain.

Blue Seal's Demand put weight on my mare when she needed it. Also, depending on how much exercise he gets, his feed may need to be adjusted to the amount of calories he's burning.