Calling Diet Guru’s!

[mischamoo]

Within the next month I’m moving my TB to a private yard where he’ll hopefully be 24/7 turnout. There is currently a lot of grass as the land hasn’t been grazed for a couple of years and I am just concerned about changes to his diet I may need to make because of the transition of being out on grass 24/7.

He’s currently on (split between 2 feeds):

2 scoops of Dengie Hi Fi Original
2 x cups of micronized linseed
2 x cups of conditioning cubes
2 x cups of top spec cool balancer
Glucosamine

He can drop weight like a typical TB so wasn’t keen to remove him completely off his hard feed and although his hoof quality is generally quite good, we are trying to improve his heel growth at the moment for his underrun heels.

I was already considering a move to get him on a more “barefoot diet” as such if possible and have heard good things about pro hoof. Can anyone make any suggestions of changes I can make to his current diet that will take into account the increase of grass he’s going to get no massive weight gain feeds as I think the grass will help with that but will still assist with helping supplement his feet?

 

[TwoStroke]

Pro hoof is fab stuff. You wouldn't need the topspec balancer then, as Pro Hoof is a forage balancer. I'd also drop the conditioning cubes if he's going to get a lot of grass. I'd also swap the Hi Fi original to molasses free, or maybe fast fibre.

 

[mischamoo]

Thanks TwoStroke, that's really helpful. Was considering changing Hi Fi Original to Molasses Free so glad I had a thought in the same direction! Would that need to be given in conjunction with Fast Fibre do you mean or simply I can chose one or the other as the main feed?

 

[TwoStroke]

No, you can feed one or the other. I only mentioned it as some horses don't get on with alfalfa barefoot, so it's often excluded from a barefoot diet .