ALFA A oil question

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Hello Lovely People who feed this!!!!
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I would just like to ask a few questions about said product?

A) do your horses like it, i.e. any who have fussy ones do they eat it?
B) how big is bag?? the usual 20kg???
C) roughly how much are you paying for yours??
D) has it put on the condition you want without the fizz??

Thank you uber much for looking!

May I also take the opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that you have lots of festive fun over the next few days eating lots, drinking lots and generally taking time out to Chillax to the Max!!!
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a) my horse loved it a lil too much ^^
b) 20kg bag
c) £13.99 for customers ( i get staff discount ^^)
d) dependant on what you feed it with and how much oil you are adding to the diet alongside the AA oil. Preferably fed with saracen re-leve as that is low startch and it is the startch element of feed which makes horses whizzy ^^
 
I think it is a great product and it keeps condition on without making them silly, BUT my horse did not like eating it. I think it feels quite sharp on their mouth. I used to have give her a small scoop of something tasty like oats to encourage her to eat up the AlfaOil, same for AlfaA.

I had to give up on the pure Alfalfa feed.
 
Not got my mare on it this year but I have in the past so will try as best I can to answer.

A) do your horses like it, i.e. any who have fussy ones do they eat it?
- Bianca liked it but did leave some if I gave her a lot or towards the end of the winter when she was ready to head out onto the grass. I found mixing a smaller amount with Alfabeet was preferable as she liked the Alfabeet. That's what she had last year and the only time she left it was when she found a bit of something unpleasant in her bucket. I guessed it was a bit of dried rabbit's leg but Dengie just called it 'fur and bone' and gave me some vouchers! Nothing they could do - I imagine it must have happened when it was harvested.

B) how big is bag?? the usual 20kg???
- 20kg sounds right or maybe 25kg - around that anyway.

C) roughly how much are you paying for yours??
- I think it's over £11 now. It may be more but I haven't bought any for a while.

D) has it put on the condition you want without the fizz?
- Yes it did. I never gave her that on it's own though always mixed with either in the past a mix or last year with Alfabeet.

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alfa a oil is all i feed from my foal to my daughters 20 yr old pony, they all eat it all have fab condition and shiny coats. i swear by it.
oh and ab lib hay of course
 
Fussy eaters may not be keen. My girl hoovers it up but she isn't fussy. Friends horse is fussy and won't eat it, and because of the oil it is bitter, and I *think* it's unmolassed unlike alfa a so it isn't uncommon for horses not to like it.
20kg bags.
I think its about £12 now but it does last quite a while- maybe 3-4 weeks with 2- 2 and a half scoops a day.
Yes its working really well at the moment and my girl is holding her weight well- but I feed it with 1 scoop of baileys no.4, about 1/3 scoop speedibeet, a handful of barley rings and 1 scoop of alfa a oil- twice a day!!!
 
both of mine hoover it up. i feed it with alfalfa pellets and these are quite bitter so fussy eaters might not like it. i pay £12 a bag for 20kg. combined with alfa-a, outshine and topspec cool condition cubes it seems to be keeping the weight on.
 
A) do your horses like it, i.e. any who have fussy ones do they eat it?

I have to add water to dampen it but he eats it.

B) how big is bag?? the usual 20kg???
20Kg

C) roughly how much are you paying for yours??
£11.00

D) has it put on the condition you want without the fizz
definatly have tried a few feeds most sent him mad!!
 
I feed this with full fat soya (about 20% oil) and sugar beet with a feed balancer.

Both our boys love it, and Tom can be quite fussy.
bag is 20kg i think
we pay about £12 for a bag - and it lasts us 2 weeks.
I feed it as an energy and fibre feed for hunting - condition stays on brilliantly.

we feed about 2 scoops per horse per day, with 1-2 scoops of the full fat soya per horse per day, and 2 scoops of (soaked) speedi-beet per horse per day, and a mug and a half each of the feed balancer per day.

this works out half the price of feeding baileys No6 (or DH staypower mix, or similar) with chaff and speedi beet.

PM me if you need more help.
 
my horse ate it but i found it to be very large stalks and as tracy01 said. quite sharp in there mouth. my tb went abit silly on it from the oil but apart from that its good.
20kg back bout £13 to customers ish but i get staff discount lol
 
A) My horse is fussy and he eats it fine
B) 20kg
C) £13.55
D) Yep has added condition without fizz (I also feed it with Calm 'n' Condition), oil is fab as it is non-heating but full of good fat
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my horse liked it but then again hes not to fussy!
i think the bag is 25kg but not sure
its £11 or £12
its deffo given him nice shiny coat slightly rounder belly but not anymore fizzy at all!
its good stuff
 
My fussy TB tolerates it but will often leave the big bits and was inclined to walk away from his food if he had lots of it. I have switched to Alpha beet now which he seems to prefer and corn oil as well as topspec balancer and cool and condition cubes. I posted a while ago on here about how to encourage him to eat more and someone said alpha A oil is quite bitter. I cant right back and he is better now (although still struggling to keep weight on him!!!)

Best option is to introduce slowly (as yoy would anyway) and see how he gets on
 
it did nothing for my tb infact he lost more weight on it than when he was on the original.

i feed triple a which is the equiliant to alfa a and cost £3 less a bag.
 
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