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My horse has come back to work after a break and is now out competing again at BE100 level. He is a 16.1 8yr old Dutch warm blood and I have been feeding him Alfa A Oil with pony nuts. However I am worried as he gets fitter that the Alfa A Oil may get too much - I have heard that it can sometimes fizz up horses, does anyone have any experience of this? Would he be better on hi fi with nuts and would I need to add a balancer to that? He doesn't gain weight that easily and is out at grass 24/7 in the summer months.
 
It sends my Arabs nuts they can't have it I just feed them graze on chaff it's just chopped grass nothing else and they have unmolassed sugar beet and micronised linseed I just adjust the amount depending on work and how they look, one of mine is quite fit at the moment and does 5 to 6 days hacking and schooling a week and has 2 feeds of 3/4 stubbs scoop chaff half beet and a half mug of linseed, his not silly on that amount and I can up it through the winter if need be.

thing is with pony nuts as well they contain molasses which can send some horses silly and they don't contain much else that's any good really, if I feel mine are lacking a certain sparkle I put them on equivite which is a multi vitamin and mineral supplement, I just keep it simple with low starch low sugar and it works for mine they are sane happy and look good.
 
If it isn't already making your horse silly then increasing his fitness won't cause it to do that. Some horses do get silly on Alfafa - many don't. I fed Alpha A Oil with A&P Cool & collected to a highly feed sensitive ISH in hard work with no problems at all. It was barley and molasses I had to watch out for. Any sugar beet - molasses or not - was rocket fuel to him. But the Alpha A helping him hold condition because he is a stressy lad and would fret weight off given half a chance.

You may possibly find that you have mistaken fitness for silliness arising from feed - in which case it will get worse as fitness increases. But as long as the horse is just properly fit rather than being given super heating feed to simulate fitness then him just getting more fit won't have any impact at all.

I just googled the grazeon chaff the poster mentioned above. It is 10-11Mj/Kg. That is actually not much less than the Alpha A Oil (12.5Mj/Kg), the same as Alpha A original (10Mj/Kg) and significantly higher than most commercial chaffs which run at about 8 - 9 Mj/Kg. There is a lot of calories in grass!
 
Mine did very well on it and I also gave him Linseed oil to put weight on. Come winter he went onto the (blue) soft and soak plus beet. At 17.1 he did drop weight easily and this worked. Summer however, he was on grass, linseed and alfa a oil. This didn't fizz him up - increasing the protein in the soft and soak (so from blue to red) did! Also like being able to feed him the alfa before riding. Previous yard had horses with suspected ulcers so I got into the habit of treating mine as though he had these as a "just in case"
 
I feed it too mine after she lost loads of weight one winter. She looks much better now. Haven't noticed it fizzing her up tbh but she is always hyper anyway so I probably wouldn't notice!
 
It doesn't fizz up my very fit TB mare, and from our experiences over winter I can tell you that the wrong feed will indeed do that! :P She loves it, and seems to settle better before riding if I bring her in and feed her a handful before I tack up.
 
I used it on my Appy and she was fine. Sadly it turns out alfalfa makes her pink skin photosensitive so it's off the menu now. Lots of my yard use it without issue
 
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