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Breezesmum

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Hi everyone,

My TB was on box rest for 10 months and lost all of his top line and muscle. The baileys nutritionist came out and said he was very very skinny, he is now back in work and i am feeding him Baileys Outshine 1 cup a day, 200 ml of soya oil, dodson and horrell ultimate balancer 2 cups a day, and one very big scoop of hi fi with apple. He also gets half a decahydron full of baileys high fibre plus nuggets, as much haylege as he can eat and one feed bucket full to the brim of speedi beet to eat at his leisure. will this put the weight on?? and also will baileys number 4 topline cubes make any difference or will they heat him up xx
 
That doesnt seem like very much at all - IMO something like Outshine is fed alongside a 'traditional' feed to add extra weight gain but is not enough to be the horses only real calorie source.

I have Tb's and when I need to add weight I feed something like unmollassed sugar beet (Speedibeet) and Alfa A Oil, plus linseed and or Omega Rice (which is a high oil concentrate like Outshine but cheaper). You want to be giving your horse lots of faibre and oil but without any extra sugar/molasses.

Personally I won't feed Conditioning Cubes as they are usually full of sugar and expensive, beet and a good chaff will cost less and do the same job. The Apple HiFi is molassed IIRC, I would ditch that too. Can you feed 3 feeds a day?

Micronised linseed is super too, and much cheaper than Outshine!
 
Thankyou so much,

A few people have mentioned linseed oil now so I will be adding some of that also, I put him onto hifi as alfa a sends him crackers. I have to feed him non heating feed otherwise he goes into full on racehorse mode. I am going to give him 3 feeds a day along with loads of good quality hayledge and a big feed bucket full to the brim of speedi beet to eat at his leisure. I dont really want to scale back the amount of work he is doing as he is quite unfit and needs muscle tone back. xxx
 
Out of interest why is it only Speedi-beet which is non-molassed in the UK. Non of the beet I buy in France is molassed and it is much cheaper than the Speedi version.

I don't need to soak quickly just put a scoop into soak each day.
 
Breezesmum said:
Thankyou so much,

A few people have mentioned linseed oil now so I will be adding some of that also, I put him onto hifi as alfa a sends him crackers. I have to feed him non heating feed otherwise he goes into full on racehorse mode. I am going to give him 3 feeds a day along with loads of good quality hayledge and a big feed bucket full to the brim of speedi beet to eat at his leisure. I dont really want to scale back the amount of work he is doing as he is quite unfit and needs muscle tone back. xxx
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Which chaff are you feeding? Hi-Fi with apple? If so that is molassed and can make horses fizzy as it is very heating, also TB's can struggle to process sugars which will prevent them gaining weight and upset their delicate bellies. If you dont want to feed Alfa A then I would try molasses free Hi-Fi as this has no added sugar, and feed a scoop of it 3 times a day with speedibeet and linseed plus a vit and mineral supplement. The key to weight gain without adding fizz is fibre and lots of it, not balancers or such.

My Tb's all fat, shiny, calm and happy on speedibeet, molasses free chaff and linseed. Cheap and easy!
 
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