Best food for a weanling

[loulabelle]

I'm due to pick my new filly up at the beginning of December and I've decided it's time to think about feed and was after some advice.
She's a 3/4 cob 1/4 TB and if her full siblings are anything to go by she will going to be substantial in both height and build.
It's been a few years since I've had a youngster and I would usually feed suregrow but I was wondering if there was anything better out there now the promotes steady growth whilst getting all the nutrients she needs?
She will be out around 12 hours in the winter with adlib haylage and stabled 12 hours at night with adlib hay.
TIA

 

[JillA]

Good quality forage and a small amount of fibre - I have seen too many youngsters overtopped and with bad joints because of over feeding. You can always make up any deficit but you can't take away what over feeding does. Someone I knew threw everything at a yearling, had an enforced day in the stable and when he emerged next day, reared and pole axed himself.

 

[loulabelle]

I don't plan on pumping her full of feed I just want to make sure she has all the correct vits and minerals hence feeding my previous youngsters a balancer like the suregrow.

 

[crabbymare]

Hay and more hay. Agree with JillA about overfeeding as it causes problems that cannot be undone later. Suregrow is designed for youngsters but I am wary of it being too much for cobby types who do well on very little. I was talking about mine with the person that is looking after her as she has been weaned now, and she is on a few oats with a little bit of brewers yeast and micronised linseed plus good grass and whatever almost hay type haylage she wants to eat. She was certainly looking well without being overtopped (as in you can see her ribs and her bum is just about round) and very healthy on it when I saw her last.