Been asked to do something I don't understand?!

[poiuytrewq]

But I'm not sure if I point it out that I won't just sound patronising!
Looking after a horse for someone at mine, it's been injured and is out of work.
Currently not fed as we have plenty of grass and its behaving impeccably.
I've been given a tub of calmer, expensive stuff which they explained was the best and really worked. They wanted it fed a few weeks before it returns home to them. Fair enough. Horse can be tricky and sharp apparently.
However they have dropped off feed to put said calmer into and it's a stud feed!
Surely this is high energy and kind of contradicting the calmer?
What reason might it need stud mix?! (It's a gelding and not young)
I don't want to send him home pumped full of un-required hard feed and him be a nightmare for them!
Am I missing something? It's clearly written on the bag but I don't want to point it out and sound like in interfering or do I just shut up and do as I've been told?!

 

[twiggy2]

I think I would just say something like 'did you realise that you had dropped of stud mix for X?' and if they did then that's what you feed...nowt as queer as folk

 

[JillA]

You could say something like "are you sure this is the right one?" They could have picked up the wrong bag by mistake, but TBH stud feed isn't as high in energy, it's more protein isn't it?

 

[wildhorses]

Is it actually a high energy feed? or is like a stud maintenance feed that they feed to their other horses?

It might be just what the owners feed as they have found it works for them.

 

[touchstone]

It isn't Suregrow is it? That can be used as a balancer for 'ordinary' horses at lower levels.

 

[Goldenstar]

Well you won't need to give the horse much to get the calmer down him so I doubt it will make any difference