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Anyone used them consistantly during the winter? I'm especially interested in the sugar free versions because after much research, I've decided to put my hot-headed Welsh D on Allen & Page: Cool and Collected (love the name - hope it reflects my riding!) for this winter.

It's the only one I liked the sound of, being molasses, barley and alfalfa free. So hopefully no fizz, no weight gain and no excess stupidness. Fingers crossed he does well on it.

Any reviews would be fab, thank you :)
 
I haven't used that feed but we have used Calm & Condition before and it turned my level headed girl in to a total fruitloop!

We do use Fast Fibre and Veteran Vitality though and I rate them really highly. Generally they are decent products at a reasonable price. :)
 
I think the Calm and Condition does have sugar in, although not much. The Cool and Collected doesn't have any but I suppose I'll just had to sit tight and see what happens to him on it.

It's very well priced though I think in comparison to other feeds :)
 
Cool and collected has over 10% sugar and starch combined so not suitable for laminitics but every feed has a % of sugar its just how much. I do rate their feeds
 
If you go on their website and click on that feed it has the brake down on the right hand side, starch 7.75% and sugar 2.9%. It's not bad and all feed will have some sugar/starch due to it being within the products used and horses do need a bit of sugar anyway. Give it a go and see how you go.
 
thatsmygirl said:
If you go on their website and click on that feed it has the brake down on the right hand side, starch 7.75% and sugar 2.9%. It's not bad and all feed will have some sugar/starch due to it being within the products used and horses do need a bit of sugar anyway. Give it a go and see how you go.
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Thank you, I will do :) Think I'm just going to have to experiment with them and see what's best.
 
If you don't want weight gain or fizz, do you really need to give a proper hard feed? Perhaps a vit/min supplement or a low calorie balancer might be a better idea?
 
TGM said:
If you don't want weight gain or fizz, do you really need to give a proper hard feed? Perhaps a vit/min supplement or a low calorie balancer might be a better idea?
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This is a good point as he is a good doer, however last year I just gave him a 'token feed' morning and night so he wasn't left out when all the other horses in the barn got theirs. Thing is, I just wanted to give him something that has goodness in it but without any sugar. He won't be getting much of it whatever I do give him. The Cool and Collected is a soak feed, so I was thinking I could maybe just give him a small amount :)
 
What sort of 'goodness' are you after? Presumably if you don't want weight gain you don't want 'goodness' in the terms of additional calories, and sounds like you don't want any extra sparkle or fizz either. If you mean 'goodness' in terms of vit/mins then these can be provided in supplement form with very little extra calories. You need to be very clear what you are actually hoping to achieve with this feed!
 
I have used both the fast fibre and L mix for my new forest and both are good however as he is a good doer I have now moved him onto a balancer instead as with the fibre feeds you need to feed quite a lot to give the RDA.

The balancer I use has a lot of extra ingredients in as well such as magnesium so I have been able to stop feeding him the magnesium calmer. He just has two cup fulls a day. Costwise it works out at about 75p per day whereas the L Mix would be about 50p per day.
 
I love it for mine. My veteran does brilliant on the veteran vitality and my mare did well on a mixture of calm and condition and power and performance mixed with alfalfa and beet pulp :)

Love their range of feeds :)
 
As others have said, it all depends on why you are feeding your horse. I have a good doer - a complete feed would be no good for us at all. All he needs is his supplements (just BY, salt and linseed in our case) which I add to a handful of speedibeet (3% sugar which you can further reduce by rinsing once soaked)

If you're not going to feed the recommended daily amounts to your horse e.g. just give them a handful, then the horse will not be receiving the correct amount of vitamins etc anyway, thus negating the point in feeding it in the first place.

I would consider thinking about exactly which supplements you need and then combining that with something like speedi/kwik-beet or a simple high fibre chaff.

Hth xx Just my opinion. xxx
 
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