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Hey Guys and girls im new to this forum

Im in need of a bit of advice:
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Out of interest Can you Tell Me What You Feed Your Arabs?!
 
The same as my Cleveland Bays except the Shagya Arabs need much much more and stay looking like super models, my CBs need very little and lots of exercise!!

Basically non-molassed SB + chaff ether Alfa-A or a high fi depending on time of year. Cool mix for most and D&H mare and youngstock for broodmares during last three months or when foal at foot.

All my fields have mineral licks. They get plenty of hay in winter but we don't use haylage as it is very expensive here in France and difficult to find. We have good year round grazing.
 
Good grass! hay, also sugar-beet , small scoop full and 1 kg spillers condition mix with a mug of milled micronised linseed.
they do light hacking 2 or 3 times a week. when doing more work they get another bucket feed later in the day.
 
Soaked oats, alfa/timothy cubes and ad-lib hay, plus a mineral lick. Broodies get a supplement too.

All live out full time.

My arab gelding used to be an absolute nightmare (brain did not connect to legs) on any kind of mix or anything with the merest whiff of mollasses, he was also allergic to carrots. I put him on soaked oats and he was a doll.
 
Just grass and hay in the summer!
In the winter Non mollased SB, Chaff Hi-Fi or Alfa-A depending on time of year, and a basic mix

Both stay in excellent condition all year
 
Depends what they're doing. Both out 24/7, all year round.

Old boy (retired, 19) gets Happy Hoof, sugar beet and apple cider vinegar.

Younger boy (10, coming back into endurance work after 11 months off with tendon injury) gets Baileys endurance mix, HiFi Original, beet, and various supplements. Used to get AlfaA but it sent him nuts.

Both get plenty hay in winter. Haylage puts too much condition on them.
 
Thank you all for your info.

Really Appreciated,

Now What do you feed a fizzy arab that lacks condition?

Basically i have an arab that is a speed freak and thinks everything has to be done at 100mph ! except schooling,
im currently taking her back to basics but im worried shes not on the correct diet.. help....!
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I find it depends on how good the grazing/hay is.

For not very good grass and poor hay then I had to feed him 2 times a day of:
1 round scoop Dodsen and Horrell Build Up mix
1 round scoop soaked Dengie AlfaBeet (sort of like sugarbeet)
3/4 round scoop Dengie Alfa A Chaff
As much ad lib hay as he would eat

Now he is on very good grass and hay he has 1 feed of:
1 scoop Spillers Happy Hoof
1/4 scoop Dodsen and Horrel Leisure Mix
he doesnt get any hay now as hes out 24/7 but when he was in at night he would get approx 10/12lbs of hay

I tried Alfa -A Oil Chaff once and it made him very very fizzy.
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Im finding every fed is sending her nuts!
its driving me mad as everything has to be done fast and out of control..

shes currently on Allen and Page Ride and Relax..
 
Take her off the Ride & Relax for a start! I call it Ride & Race - has always fizzed up anything I've fed it to.

I've got four arabs and they are all on one of the Winergy Equilibrium mixes. My 13yo gelding who can be very hyper has calmed down noticeably since being on Winergy Low energy. Things I avoid with him are alfalfa, carrots and garlic. He is also on Blue Chip Karma which is brilliant stuff and does chill him out a lot. The Winergy feeds are fab - all my horses look the best they ever have since starting to feed it.
 
Ahh bless her.
My horse is the same, everything has to be done as fast as he can, especially jumping!

Lorian was really under weight last winter and summer. I tried loads of feeds (Topspec, Barley Rings, Flaked Barley, Calm and Condition, Alfa A oil Chaff, the list is endless)
However I found that Dengie AlfaBeet worked best and it didnt make him fizzy at all. You soak it in water just like sugarbeet.
Also I found that by feeding more chaff/forage rather than mixes it kept him calm but put the weight on.

Maybe aswell as trying AlfaBeet in her dinners you could try giving her big buckets of chaff, like Dengie hifi or something that she can graze on. Along with as much hay as she will eat. Id just get as much forage into her as you can really.
Theres also that Spillers Readi-Grass that is just freeze dried grass that I used for a while when my grazing was really poor. Thats another good forage type.

Each horse is different but forage is the way I finally got lots of weight on Lorian.
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Deffinately take her off ride and relax.
I second Winergy equilibrium mixes they are great give condition and are slow release energy and more forage such as readi grass, dont get anything with too high a sugar content obviously and dont give her mollichaff...it sends ours mad.

Good luck with her
 
To gain condition without fizz, you could try adding oil (I use veg oil but there are those who swear by soya oil) or looking for an oil-rich unmolassed feed.

I've never had an Arab that needed to gain weight but I did have a toast-rack TB, and he did well on Baileys No 1 cooked cereal, which didn't seem to go to his head.
 
My 24yr old gelding in medium work has:
Ad lib haylage,
2kg Saracen Veteran Pencils

660g Saracen Bio-Life 2000

Fibregy 1 round scoop per feed which will be around 300-400g per scoop

Alfabeet as required to dampen the feed
This is fed over 3 feeds per day. A horse is only able to consume/digest 2kg of feed per "sitting", any more and it won't be of any benefit.
Over the years I've tried him on many conditioning feeds, but nothing has ever had amazing results. Hes only started to chill out as hes got older and at the moment looks fab on what he gets. But he still likes to act like something from the mad hatters tea party! most of the time.
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I would advise a high fibre diet, use cube instead of mixes and ensure she has regular turnout.
Hope this helps
 
I feed my anglo linseed to put on condition, and he is on a high fibre diet - adlib hay (sometimes haylage if hay not good quality), 2 scoops hi-fi lite, 1.5 scoops spillers fibre cubes and 2 scoops soaked speedi-beet (using round scoop). Not very good grazing. If he drops off a bit, then I increase the speedi-beet, sometimes the nuts to 2 scoops per day.
 
Just out of interest have you recently aquired your Arab or moved yard? I purchased two from Hungary. One settled very quickly the other was a nutcase for a year. She jumped electric fence, jumped out of the menage with long reins on went off her head if out of sight of other horses for minutes.

I got help from a horse whisperer and now I could put a child on her. It was not the feed I think she was probably pining for her old home - not helped by the fact I don't speak Hungarian!!
 
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