Advice on Yearling feed

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Belle12

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I am about to purchase my first yearling, a Cob x Section D filly (approx 10 months old). Her current owner has advised me she was rescued in sept last year (she was underweight at the time) and has since been fed Calm and Condition with Herbal Chaff, pony nuts and chopped apple and carrots, turned out 24/7 so plenty of grass and no hay.

I'm worried she is too young for Calm and Condition and have read so many different opinions on the right and wrong youngstock feeds I thought it would be better to get a direct answer, if there is one!

Is this combination a healthy mix for her or do you have any suggestions?

If it is a case of a change to her diet, over how long should this process take?

When she moves to her new yard she will be turned out daily however not 24/7.

Thanks in advance :)
 
Is she at a good weight now? I certainly wouldn't feed a ten month old calm and condition. If she still isn't up to weight get her on all the haylage she can eat and put her on a balancer like Dodson and horrel suregrow. Leigh herbal chaff is far too mollassed for my liking. I use graze on which is flash dried grass. Fab for condition and not coated in molasses like so many feeds around at the moment. The balancer will make sure she's getting all the vote and mins she needs without forcing growth which can lead to drastic joint problems later on
 
She's a good weight now, chunky in fact and having seen before and after pics there is a noticeable difference.

Would you suggest the balancer if she's on track with weight? And should this be a slow transition? I'm worried about the long term effects of her current diet and hoping it's not caused any lasting damage :-/
 
If she was coming to me with a history of being under done, the first thing I would do would be a worm count and then deal with anything they may need dealing with. Tapeworm time now.

My soon to be a yearling cobxID is on Dodson Horrell Suregrow 600g a day, handful of unmollassed chaff, DH Surelimb (I stocked up before it went kapput) at half measure and a chopped carrot, this is dampened down with a splash of sugarbeet juice. She also has good quality haylage and hay. Our grass is poor at the moment we need rain.

She is 14.3 and 318kg and looks just on the lean side of good.
 
Toast said:
If shes on track then i would literally give a cup of suregrow twice daily with plenty of haylage!
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Ditto this although she might be better on meadow hay instead if you can get it and as much turnout as she can have with company of her own age. Suregrow is sufficient in all the minerals and vitamins she needs, you don't need to add chaff, sugar beet or anything else to it at all.
 
Maesfen said:
Ditto this although she might be better on meadow hay instead if you can get it and as much turnout as she can have with company of her own age. Suregrow is sufficient in all the minerals and vitamins she needs, you don't need to add chaff, sugar beet or anything else to it at all.
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My filly turned her nose up at Suregrow on it's own, she spent more time using it to spit at the cat than she did eating it. I found by adding a single handful of non-mollassed chaff and teacupful of sugarbeet juice she ate it up without any question. I realise it doesn't need anything adding to it. Do you think I am making it unbalanced ? Thanks for your help.
 
How strange, everything I've fed with it laps it up, don't need adding to it at all still good thing we're not all the same I think just to keep us on our toes or else mine are only too thankful for what they get, lol!
No, I wouldn't have thought you'd unbalance it at all as you're only adding fibre after all and if something needed weight gain that would be recommended wouldn't it? I just said to feed alone to prove that it can be and as it's a cob cross it's not likely to need the extra calories from other things if that makes sense.
 
My cob as a yearling was on spillers chaff and their grow and win balancer which is fab- he is still on this combo now at 2 1/2 yrs, he has grown slowly, not top heavy and is maturing nicely :)
 
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