Anyone tried balanced horse feeds show mix?

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Hi, I was advised by a feed supplier to give my pony show mix for condition. I phoned the company to check that it was ok for the pony and amounts to give. I was told that it didn't make them fizzy as it's my 11 year old daughters pony and that's the last thing she needs. I gave it 2 weeks, pony was on her toes, sweaty, tried to bolt on a hack and lost condition, she's never been like this! Since she's come off it she seems to be back to herself and not done anything she shouldn't. Has anyone else had this with show mix?
 
Most kind of conditioning feeds have the potential to heat an animal up. And it's the last thing I'd feed to a child's pony. Mix is even worse.

If the pony needs condition up the fibre through hay and think about adding something like linseed (not too much) to a small hard feed.
 
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She's a little thoroughbred type show pony- not what I'm used to so wasn't sure what to feed her as she won't be a good doer like the others I have had in the past that lived on nothing. This is our first winter with her and wanted to make sure she was given the right feed. Thought I was doing the right thing by getting advice from the feed store nutrition advisor and from the company that makes it. She's just on basic pony nuts at the mo and her grass and hay think she looks better anyway.
 
I had my old TB mare on show mix and it suited her down to the ground. However my normally sane gelding TB went a bit loopy on it, took him off it after a month. I guess it works for some and not for others :-)
 
Copra is popular in showing circles as its non heating

Frickers Tiny Tot cubes are also quite popular but I think they may be a bit heating - worth calling them for clarification

The Micronised Linseed mentioned above is very good, I feed that plus a small amount of Baileys conditioning cubes to my 11.2 pony which seems to be working quite well but he gets ad lib forage too
 
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