Advice on what to feed a 3yr old please

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I have recently purchased a 3yr old gelding who needs weight and condition putting on. Im not going to break him in untill he is around 4, so i need a feed that will bulk him out but without the fizz. Also i need to make sure he will be getting all the vitamins and minerals he needs, any suggestions? Many thanks :)
 
As I said in another post re feeding a yearling. Make sure your horse has access to haylage all the time. Feed a good balancer like d&h suregrow for vita and mins, and if that's not enough to start putting the weight on, I'd add a grass chaff like graze on. This is flash dried grass and has all the nutrients that good grass has. This is my youngsters staple to keep them up to weight but not too fat while they are growing
 
Did they get 'fizzy' on it? He's 16hh at the moment and I don't want him to start getting stupid. I'll be doing all the ground work with him but I'm going to take it slowly. Thanks for the advice
 
I feed baileys no4 with chaff & sugabeet twice daily, with a balancer. As much hay as he can eat and has daily turnout. He looks fab on it, filled him out and brought the best out in him-without the fizz (hes arab, so I don't need any more of that!)
 
Suregrow! My boy still gets a tiny scoop a week.
I'd probably feed.
Suregrow.
Garlic.
And some from of grass chaff, no heat ;)

--- and I have just realised Toast has said this too without the garlic :p
*sigh* Always one step behind! :rolleyes:
 
I feed suregrow to my youngsters too with spillers cool fibre chaff or spillers conditioning fibre depending if they need to put weight on or not.
 
Another vote for Suregrow and what Toast said :) Worked brilliantly on a slightly silly two year old who was growing so fast she struggled to keep weight on. She stayed nice and calm on it too!
 
I had my 4 year old on chaff, bran, sugarbeet and carrots. She was not fizzy at all but she was turned out all day and I was doing ground work with her. At night she had 3 haynets full of haylege :) It was slow going to start with but then all of a sudden the weight was on in about a month and she only has one feed now of chaff and carrots- she was originally on three of the before mentioned :) Also, you could try the calm and condition feed... a horse at my yard tends to get fizzy so he's off the bran and sugarbeet but this stuff keeps him sane whilst putting weight on, he only has that with a scoop of chaff and he's doing fine :)
 
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