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Hi everyone, so last year my boy had a really bad winter (partly due to illness) and he lost a worrying amount of weight despite being on umpteen conditioning feeds, e.g. spillers conditioning mix and cubes, speedi beet, calm and condition, and ad lib haylage with his routine generally being out in the field during the day and in at night, and he was out of work due to an injury. I then put him onto bluechip at around april and i did notice a significant improvment, but this timing was also when the grass started coming through. Obviously i do not want the same thing to happen this year as he is in work and i am happy with his weight currently( picture below taken on sunday), so does anyone else have any reccomendations of what to feed him this winter? I talked to a spillers rep at camp and she said to feed him high oil chaff, coolmix and conditioning cubes, which i have been doing all summer and he is currently on now, but in the back of my mind i don't know whether to put him back on bluechip! thankyou in advance
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I brought my boy six months ago and he was a scrawny thing so I started him on speedibeat, chaff and micronised linseed which seemed to work nicely until an issue with his teeth made him drop a lot of weight so I added Baileys No.4 top line condition cubes and blimey I am so impressed. He has been on them about a month now but even after two weeks he just filled out beautifully :D

And to top it all off they dont send him doolally! ... although he has a spring in his step its because he is so fit and feeling so well rather than it fizzing him up which is a different feel if oyu know what I mean :)
 
thankyou where do you buy the micronised linseed from and does the linseed help add/keep condition? as i only thought it helped there coats? :)
 
I second the linseed. Its full of oils so adds condition brilliantly. Its also great for coat feet and skin so well worth including it. You can get a big 20kg bag online at Charnwood milling but when I was feeding it, I phoned my local feed merchant and asked them to order it from Charnwood on my behalf so that I wouldn't have to pay the postage. Other than that Id say keep it as simple as possible so high high fibre low low sugar. Check all feed bags as a lot of feeds are misleading. So something like fast fibre or speedi beet with linseed. I have a poor doer (or so I thought until I put her on thunderbrook base mix, fantastic feed, I wont o on about it though because people miht think Im a rep for them lol! ) and she kept weight last winter on this three times a day, ad lib hay and a bucket of fast fibre in her stable with her when she was stabled over night.
 
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