Am I going to have to rethink my feeding plans?

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At the moment my HW cob is on top spec anti lam mixed with hifi lite.

He is turned out for 5 - 6 hours a day on poor grazing and currently munching his way though 4 hay nets a night (these nets are doubled so he must be hungry)

I am however going to me moving to a yard with excellent turn out and grazing - we're talking 18 acres of land that has not really been grazed, 11 acres of which has been used for growing haylage and has not been cut there year.

He won't have access to it all but will still have a lot more than he's been getting.

Should I just drop the hard feed altogether and give him a couple of equibites a day or perhaps give him a tiny scoop of hifi to mix in his supplements - I'm particularly keen to keep giving him something for his feet as he's recently barefoot!

Any ideas?
 
Or you could try Dengie healthy hooves, lovely stuff and lo cal but lots of biotin for the hooves. Even if he didnt have the full RDA he would get benefit and I havent met a horse that doesnt adore it! Both of mine are on it now as the hunter kept ignoring his expensive food and kicking the door to get at Coblets healthy hooves (coblet is barefoot...)
 
I love the healthy hooves I fed it to mine during the summer, she loved it too, however I'm still trying to work out whether it is the cause of her sudden lumpy/bumpyness, so have swaped back to alfa a, if the healthy hooves isn't found to be the cause I will put her back on it.
 
AntiLam has the biotin in that you want. As does their new 'Lite' feed, which seems to be cheaper than AntiLam
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How much HiFi Lite are you feeding? My fattie gets a handful, literally, just to mix her powdered supplements in with. No need to feed her any more than a handful as she will bloat on anything I feed her! If you feed a large amount of chaff then I agree with the above posters, maybe think about something like Healthy Hooves or Happy Hoof or something else that gives them all they need when fed at the recommended rates. If you only feed a small amount then better to stick with the pelleted balancer. In fact if you don't feed much chaff and you don't feed any powdered supplements, I'd just be feeding the TopSpec if I were you.
If the grazing really is "excellent" and your horse is not on restricted grazing, just drop it all and save yourself a small fortune!
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Thanks! I'd read about the Topspec Lite and was thinking of contacting them to find out what the difference as!

He doesnt' get much fhaff at all - only enought to mix the pellets in with so he doesn't just inhale them in one go - probably 1 scoop a day?

Off to speak to top spec now and see what they say!!
 
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