Calm and Condition - horse a bit loopy!

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Just typed a lovely long thread with loads of information and computer died, so here is a short one instead!

Anyone had any adverse reaction to Calm and Condition in feed?

My horse has had a month off and a change of feed. Coming back into work he is really spooky and silly. Could it be the C & C?

If you have had a bad reaction to it, what do you use instead. He needs to ideally gain a little more weight, but as a minimum retain what he has.
 
Have just started using this to give my TB a bit of condition and he's like a dope on a rope!

After 2 weeks on it, he's looking better condition wise but now the grass is coming through I may take him off the C&C to get a bit of spark back.
 
Sent my TB nuts! Dangerous almost.

Stopped it and normal service resumed.

Went back to Winergy equilibrium condition and Bailey's outshine. Weight being gained and horse normal once more :-)
 
Can't feed it to my mare, seems like she takes the title as a personal challenge :rolleyes: and was anything but calm on it! She's on their Sugar and Cereal Intolerance mix atm and is fine on it. Can't tell if it's helping her gain weight or if it's the spring grass coming through tho!
 
Sent my 5 year old mare a bit loopy gradually over a period of 3 weeks - took her off it and changed to Alfa a oil/sugarbeet and powder balancer and normal service has been resumed ;)
 
Ive just had to take my luso mare off it, just finished a first bag and maybe a coinsidence or time of year maybe but her personality has totally changed, she turned into a complete b**ch within 2 days of being on it? Plus normally a very good doer and she seems to have dropped a bit of weight on it too (tbh she did need to though!)
 
Sent my TB wild & never put any weight on! I find the top spec cool condition cubes great for weight gain,them maintenance of weight with no silly behaviour.
 
Tried it for my lot , all natives, sent half loopy. Stopped after reading stuff on here and all return to normal. Mine are all enjoying spring so are a little on their toes but not loopy
 
A lot of horses go daft on this stuff the smaller minority find it works well for them. I was in the works well group luckily!
 
Had a TB on it, went absolutely loopy. Took him off it, went back to normal. Also knew another horse on it, TBx, who was the same. I've got my current horse (another TB) on top spec cool conditioning cubes & mollichaff conditioning, which is putting weight on without turning him into a big spaz.
 
There are much better feeds out there than C&C.

Personally I like Topspec, Baileys Outshine/No 4 and Pure Feeds
 
Doing OK on C&C for two of my oldies. One is looking much better than when he was on a senior conditioning mix, his tum is much happier and he is eating all his feed up with no probs and seems to actually look forward to his feeds now which he didn't before. The other needs a low sugar, low starch diet but with conditioning as well, and he is also responding well with no sign of loopiness whereas other feeds sent him nuts!

I guess it's just a case of finding the right feed for individuals, what works for one won't work for another.
 
Thank you for all the replies, very, very helpful. I am off to the feed shop tomorrow armed with your list of recommendations to see what they stock. Had a better day with him today, but still feel this would be a good avenue to go down. Psychologically for me if nothing else!
 
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