USPC Required Equipment for Rallies

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Feeding Equipment

Overnight Rally Only. Competitors at rallies should be encouraged to set their feed rooms up as if someone else was going to feed their horses. Would that person know which hay was yours? Which meal to feed to your horse? How much grain they should eat? Feed charts and labeling should make it very clear and simple.

Horses may be fed two ways at overnight rallies: prepackaged meals or from loose feed.

Prepackaged meals should be:

• Individually packaged in paper bags or breathable mesh bags (never ziplock plastic bags)
• Labeled to indicate horse's name and a.m. or p.m. feeding
• If supplements are included list the amount and type
• Stored in metal or plastic containers with air holes, one container per horse, marked with horse's name
• Containers need to be secured with chain or rope (not bungee cords) unless kept in a secured area behind a closed door.
• Prescription medication may not be included in pre-packaged meals. A Veterinarian's Letter (page 101, 2007 Horse Management Rulebook) must be presented to the Chief Horse Management Judge before the competition and a judge must observe the competitor administering the medication to the mount.

Loose feed should be:

• Kept in a breathable bags
• include a feed measure (scale, scoop or can)
• Stored in a metal or plastic container with air holes
• secured with chain or rope (not bungee cords) unless kept in a secured area behind a closed door

Prescription Medication rules: A HMJ or competition veterinarian must be present whenever a prescribed medication is administered to a mount. (2007 Horse Management Rulebook, Rule 21c). USPC follows USEF rules regarding equine medications. Any mount requiring medications must have a letter from the prescribing veterinarian(2007 Horse Management Rulebook, Rule 21b)

Requirements:

• Per team and/or mount
• Labeling: See individual items and note about feed labeling.

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Feed Chart: Include horse's name, competitor's number, normal feeding times, feed types, and amounts (by weight and can add volume as well if you use a volume scoop to feed.) Remember to list any medications or neutraceuticals that a horse gets on the stall card as well as the feed chart. Feed Charts should be hung in the feed area.

Feeding rules: Each team/individual must post a feed chart in the area where feed is prepared and/or stored. The chart must have clear instructions for feeding the teams/individual mounts (2007 Horse Management Rulebook, Rule 13d)

• Should be: easy to read
• Good tip: make one feed chart per mount.

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Feed Measure: Should be included if mounts feed is not premeasured.

• Should be: labeled with competitor's name or number
• Shouldn't be: glass

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Appropriate secured grain storage: Grain storage rules: "If a mount is to be fed during a competition the feed supply must not be accessible to mounts or other animals."(2007 Horse Management Rulebook, Rule 13e)

Grain should be stored in a such a manner that mounts and other animals and insects cannot access it. Some examples of grain storage are:

• Metal container with lid: small galvanized trash cans with handles make good grain storage containers. Secure with a rope or chain pulled tightly across the top of the container.
• Sturdy plastic container with lid: Plastic should have holes poked in it to encourage air circulation. Secure with a rope or chain pulled tightly across the top of the container.

If a feed room is located in a spare barn stall near mounts then grain storage needs to have secondary security (a rope or chain pulled tightly across the top of the container). Spare stall doors might be accidentally left open, and are exactly the right size to let a pony walk through.

If trailers and other spaces with narrower latching doors are used grain may not need secondary security since the door opening acts as a barrier.

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written by Mary Waldman, DelMarVa Region, 2009