A TB and feed question...again!

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TB, very laid back, not heated up by feed, however soon as gets cold very hard to keep condition on. Rugged up currently in medium weight rug [not clipped yet], out during the day, in at night.

Currently on ad lib hay over night and on Coprafeed.

Wormed up to date. In work 6 days a week and out and about some weekends, though not in 'hard' work by any stretch - just a general riding horse.

Want to get him out hunting, however, not until he is a lot more covered!

Started to drop off now and looking a little 'light' for my liking - did the same last year too.

Isn't a fussy eater, Just want weight on him asap! Not a fizzy type so don't mind excess energy at all - I'd rather him conditioned well!

Just wondering what you guys would feed?
 
I feed my TB's TopSpec Super Conditioning Flakes when they come out of training and it puts weight on them nicely and quickly. Ring TopSpec, tell them about your horse and see what they recommend. I can't rate them highly enough.
 
Sounds like our 7/8TB, we had success last year with grass nuts, graze on (rather than chaff), equibeet and oil, plus adlib haylage (in winter), this year we will be using pink powder too just because I have some in. Ours lives out and is currently (and only just) in a lightweight rug and just about to be changed into a field that has been allowed to grow for several months. He has looked fantastic all summer and started to just drop slightly hence the rug and change of field. We probably won't start feeding for a few weeks yet.
 
Alpha A oil, grass nuts, speedibeet (purely because i am too disorganised to soak sugar beet in advance!) and suregrow. Now she isn't in work she is just on good grazing 24/7 but when she was in work she was looking fab on this.
 
I was swinging towards super conditioning flakes, along with number 4 maybe?

I was thinking of getting a big round bale of haylage to put in his pen come November and over xmas also.
 
I would only use the TS flakes for a horse in hard work that needs more pep - although they are conditioning they are high in starch, the only feed that TS makes that is, I think. I'd use their Cool Conditioning, but even more important I'd use their balancer first and foremost, or a similarly good one. It's a great base for low starch feeding, then there are lots of good sugegstions on here for low starch options. I'd not touch Baileys No.4 with a bargepole - nothing wrong with it per se, but really high in starch and horses are ill equipped to digest starch. Forage, oil and decent protein is the way to go if you want to give a horse what it deals best with.
 
Thanks, I have tried linseed, but he won't touch the stuff. He's not that fussy an eater...but linseed is one thing he won't touch with a bargepole!
 
Another vote for alpha a, I feed mine alpha a oil, D&H high fibre nuts and pink powder and he has put the weight and condition on very nicely over a few weeks :)

I also find making sure he has a neck on his rug helps too (he must like being snuggly?!)
 
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