Bailey's no.17. Rocket fuel??????

[Janette]

Star (coloured native mare) has been spending sometime in horsepital lately, and tends to 'stress' her condition off. She came home looking distinctly 'light' and tucked up. Not the horspital's fault - it's just her.

Anyway! She has to go back in another week so I've had her on Baileys 17 to try and give her a bit of a 'cushion' but boy is she a handful! She jogs, pulls, canters on the spot and generally is feeling extremely well and showing her 'inner racehorse'.......................

Hacking out is not much fun at all and all the jogging is not doing my bosom any good!

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The only thing which has changed since she came home is the substitution of Baileys 17 for her usual cool mix which has fewer calories. She has still been getting her NAf magic. (Baileys is 'supposed' to be non-heating isn't it?)

BTW - she has a tumour growing across the surface of her eye, so is quite fit. She's already had chemotherapy and radiotherapy for it and it has responded really well. Surgery is probably on the cards.

 

[KatB]

Which one is no. 17? Is that the topline cubes? If so they are identicle to the racehorse cubes....

 

[lilym]

no17 conditioning mix is quite starchy and is full of barley, hence the behavoiur you are experiencing, has she also been on box rest?? if so she probably has been fed too much energy for her situation, try changing to bailey's no4 the topline cubes, lower starch and barley free, or allen and page calm and condition.

 

[cosmicblue]

Topline line cubes are identical to thier race cube so yes the mix wont be that much different.
Have a look at the new spillers conditioning fibre, brill stuff!

 

[Meg2]

The cubes are barley free whereas the mix has barley and maize etc which makes it more heating and higher in starch. Checkout
http://www.baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk/whatproduct/condition/no17.htm

 

[MagicMelon]

Are the topline cubes identical to rachorse cubes?! Blimey, would never have started feeding them to my TB x if Id known that! Although, luckily it hasnt blown his brains.

I love Baileys but if its not working, how about trying a different make of conditioning cube.

 

[JaneB]

Reckon it's more to do with upping the calorie intake after some time off. Cubes are less heating than mixes but there's still a jump from cool mix to condititioning cubes as far as energy levels are concerned. Maybe just feed more cool mix, within reason!

 

[Janette]

Thanks for all the help - have now switched to cubes.

 

[hadfos]

PMSL

No wonder the guy that bred my boy sold him to me at 8mnth old(racehorse breeder)(he knew something i didnt,lol)!!!same as racehorse cubes?Had my lad on em all last winter and he was exactly the same as always

laid back(lazy),only thing that changed was his neck,lmao!!!Looks bloody good for a tb though!!!

 

[hadfos]

our feed shop started their own topline cubes £5.95 and they did just the same job as the baileys at...(cant remember now,sure it was £8 something???)

 

[Nats_uk]

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Topline line cubes are identical to thier race cube so yes the mix wont be that much different.
Have a look at the new spillers conditioning fibre, brill stuff!

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Well that's strange - I feed my horse topline cubes all year round and in the summer to get that extra sparkle I had to introduce some mix as I don't find the cubes heating at all.