Best conditioning mix?

[as sweet as hunni]

So hunni always seems to loose condition in winter, she is clipped,rugged accordingly, a decent amount of food and hay and they have ALOT of grass in the field still , so any ideas for which condition mix? ideally one which wont send her skits as she isn't that type of horse
also we come 7th in the hunter trials , will post pics soon

 

[Archiepoo]

hi hunni well done on the hunter trials i think best conditioning feed is baileys number 4 which is a cube or number 17 which is the mix . really good conditioning and doesnt make them fizzy

 

[swintondesire]

spillers do a cool mix which contains magnesium for calming. it working on our big lad, its a really nice mix which isnt all clumped together.

 

[thatsmygirl]

Why a mix? Why not something like micro linseed or coolstance copra which is low sugar/starch and their systems will cope better with it

 

[Venevidivici]

It's a cube but top spec cool conditioning cubes have always worked in a matter of 2-3wks for horses on our yard.

 

[BillyBob-Sleigh]

D&H Build Up cubes have worked wonders on my boy this year, his coat is gleaming and he's nicely covered.

 

[ClumsyPonyPF]

spillers do a cool mix which contains magnesium for calming. it working on our big lad, its a really nice mix which isnt all clumped together.

Does this really work??

Last year our tb lost weight really badly and we looking into conditioning feed a lot. There is a D&H conditioning mix, but that made him really fizzy! Fast fibre was something that can bulk out the feed a bit and that helped us a bit, as its just fibre there is no heating element in it.

Had calm and condition for a sec c that was skinny, but didnt see a massive change.

At YHL this year I found out more about the different chaffs you can get for condition too. Mollichops 'bloom' sounded really good

 

[dreamcometrue]

Another vote for D&H Build Up but I used the mix rather than the cube. Fabulous stuff.

 

[Herpesas]

I've been using Falcon Feeds Oat and Barley Free and Omega Rice this year with my horse and I've seen a real improvement - energy but not bursting out of his skin and no silliness and, so far, gaining weight.

 

[wench]

baileys topline cubes

 

[as sweet as hunni]

Thanks guys! Ill have a mooch round for info on them

 

[sugar_lump.]

baileys topline cubes

Second this one

 

[dressedkez]

I had a shock a couple of weeks ago, having left the horses in the hands of my husband and son (whilst working full time) to see that both TB's looked dreadful. The young horse looked fine, but had no muscle tone.
I instantly wormed them - ordered decent hay, not the crap they were feeding the bullocks on. Bought own brand conditioning mix from the local feed mill, added Alfa A and a good glug of veg oil with each feed. I also insisted on stable rugs at night, and NZ during the day, and now two of them are clipped - and this weekend glad to say, no bouncing the clippers of ribs - the young horse has also put on huge amounts of muscle in his fortnight of being fed well, and ridden as well. Two weeks on they are all looking brilliant. Having said that, I am out the yard every morning now - you simply can't delegate.......I am now weaning the hot TB off conditioning mix to half and half cooling mix (because he will buck his rider off someday soon) Also same TB is now on Farriers formula - and wow how have his feet improved in a similar time.....he was the skinniset, so I have left him a further week before clipping, but this week-end his coat looked great, shining in the sun. It is so easy for them to go backwards - but fortunately easy to pick up again as well, if caught in time.