broodmare nutrition

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hi, anyone got any tips for any good general supplements for broodmares? Anything specific that my mare should be getting from the start.
Also any reccomendations for calmers she's a bit nervy in her stable and i want her to have an easy ride as possible!!!
 
I swear by Baileys stud balancer straight from the start and all the way through, infact my mares are permantly fed it welcome to the forum
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thanks, done the horsey things for years and years now, but never branched out into this area before!!! so any advice or tips you may have would be very well recieved. p.s love the pics
 
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I second that !!!
 
I 3rd that!!!!

Failing that I know some people who've had good results with the new Winergy Equilibrium Growth. Not used it myself though as swear by the stud balancer.

StaceyTanglewood - I take it your boy has been successful on it??
 
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I 4th that!! Bloss looks fab on it, and it smells good too
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I 3rd that!!!!

Failing that I know some people who've had good results with the new Winergy Equilibrium Growth. Not used it myself though as swear by the stud balancer.

StaceyTanglewood - I take it your boy has been successful on it??

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Yep only been on it a few months and seen the difference already !! also now feeding it to my mare and foal and to my broodmare in foal for next year !!!

its nice for foals as the pellets are only tiny so they seem to eat it better !! or maybe mine is just a pig !!
 
Foals can definately find it easy to eat - although the Bailey's lot day to only feed to foals over about 10-12 weeks. Our mare and foal at home have been out since she was about 7 months pregnant and they have not once looked anything but fantastic! Mare hasn't even slightly lost condition and has had beautiful dapples in her usually plain grey coat throughout and the hleam on the pair of them is just beautiful!!! When my other 2 recently in foal mares come in for the winter they will definately be going straight onto it!

The best thing about it I find is that you are only feeding small amounts and still giving all the nutrition they need and so lowering the amount of cereals and concentrates in their diet (although of course giving plenty of hay/chaffs/alfa, etc. etc still so that they get their fibre)
 
thanks for that everyone!! it was very much a last minute idea to try and put her in foal this year and in some ways i am playing catch up!!! anyone got any good reccomendations for calmers. i have used naff magic five star and had good results with her on this but am open to any other suggestions.
 
hi,
saw on one of the other topics that you have had experience of twinning how easy was this to deal with? My vet has said he thinks the chances are very high we are due to scan at three weeks to check.
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Twinning is simple to deal with. One of the embryos is "pinched" - meaning it is killed through crushing. The crushed embryo is reabsorbed and the surviving one (fingers crossed) carries on growing and is born about 10-11 months later. Easy!

Even if the mare had a double ovulation and was covered naturally/inseminated into the uterine body then the chance of twinning is still not that high. The equine uterus is only designed to carry one pregnancy and will likely do its best to absorb one of the twins naturally before 21 days. Good luck.
 
I would scan earlier than 3 weeks at 14 - 16 days then again at 28 - 32 days !!

If twinning does happen it is very easy and simple to deal with but you do risk losing the other embryo (which i thought i had)
 
thank you!
we had to go the regumate route followed by the jab and she ended up with three similar sized eggs (the vet said no one was really dominant) BLOODY HORSES!!!. Fingers crossed.
 
We had a twinning in one of our mares this year but it was not a simple one, as both embryos were attached to each other. The vet managed to get them apart eventually but unfortunately the second did not survive the trauma. Its different if the two are already apart, but if they are stuck together it is not quite so straight forward.

Good luck with your mare.

On the feed front because of the number of mares we have we actually have our own nutritionst for the mares. All our haylege is tested and the feed made up accordingly, as we purchase a ton of feed around every 4 weeks. We also have a specific supplement on top of this and another supplement that we take in from Germany to help with any mycotoxins found in the haylege. On top of this we vaccinate all the mares for the usual plus EHV and this year we are also introducing a new vaccination. Its costly but we like to try and cover all eventualities.....
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