baileys cooked cereal meal - for poor doer with delicate digestion?

gothdolly

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Hi there
Im looking for ways to put condition on my TB x who is a poor doer, and has a delicate digestion (loose droppings when feeds are too rich, grass changes, he gets stressed or when fed lots of alfalfa etc). Unmollased sugar beet/fibre beet goes straight through him... I came across baileys No.1 when searching for feeds - its says its easily digested... has anyone used it in this kind of situation?

Hes a stressy horse who weaves and is quite flighty
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thanks in advance
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edited to say: he has been seen by the vet since I bought him, wormed thoroughly and had teeth done and is on probiotic and a yeast supplement.
 

toomanyhorses26

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it does work really well we have had three aqt my yard on it at one time or another - two no issues with at all and the third turned into a fruit loop but she does have these tendencies anyway
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top spec conditioning flakes are a good weight gain/condition feed as well
 

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if he has delicate digestion and is a stress head then feeding a high cereal diet like the No.1 or Conditioning Flakes, whilst they are high in calories, is probably not the best idea as the horse is naturally designed to digest fibre - I would look for a fibre and oil based diet, ring round a few feed companys, i found winergy helpful for my mare who had ulcers and colic
 
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