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We're trying to get more weight on Sid (one of the reasons he's moving yard) and have been recommended Calm and Condition as something that won't fizz him up but will do what it says on the tin.
Anyone had any experience of it and how did you feed it? Soaked? With chaff (or something similar)?
 
I feed it to my eventer that has difficulty gaining any weight but gets lymphangitis on a lot of things. I feed alfa A, speedibeet and calm and cond.I make sure it is quite wet as there is a warning on the bag
 
i feed C&C to my two TB's, has worked a treat so far. You have to soak it for 5 min or so to make it 'mushy'. I feed it with alfa a oil....
 
i thought it was crap. fed loads last winter and it did nothing. Im now using D&H Build up cubes which D7H have told me shouldnt make the mare fizzy and i also feed speedibeet. but you can add soya oil too! ive got an email from D&H on their opinion of feeding a fizzy stressy horse over winter if you want to see it. PM me
 
I fed it to mine when they were a bit lean after their winter break in the field and they looked great on it really quickly. Like Carthorse says, you have to wet it. I fed it with Alfa Oil and a bit of sugar beet.
 
I was really unimpressed with it. I had areally poor doer that just had to blink to drop condition. I fed it C&C for 6 months- it still looked very poor.
In the end we changed it onto Hi-fi cubes, Alfa A and the dodson and horrell linseed impregnated barley biscuits & sugar beet.
Horse is unrecognisable now- looks a million dollars.
 
I have used Calm and Condition on my fragile TB. Worked brilliantly. Only pain was the fact that it kind of breaks down to a fine powder when you add water which my TB wouldn't eat if there wasn't enough chaff in too. I never tried making a mash from it although that might have been better. In terms of weight gain it was brilliant without any heating effects at all.

Alternatively you could use Bailey's No4 Conditioning Cubes as they are also without Barley and don't need much wetting. My TB seems to prefer these.
 
My twenty something TB gets it with Hi-Fi, he doen't fiz up on it and holds his weight well, in the winter he gets haylege too and does very well.
 
My tb mare finds it fizzy. I've not long started using speedibeet along with normal nuts, plus sunflower oil and for the first time ever she is starting to gain weight (pity she has just been retired through unsoundness!). I'd recommend the sugar beet and oil for sure.
 
I didn't like it as didn't seem to work and is a pain if you need to make feeds up in advnce. Now feed Top Spec Cool Condition Cubes and he had put on so much condition and weight and looks great and is nice and chilled (well as much as any youngster can be anyway!) so couldn't recommend them higher!!
 
It worked brilliantly on a lean mare at my yard who is incredibly fizzy !!!

you have to wet it though as ive known people not read the instructions before and not do that !! we fed alfa a oil and speedi beat with it !!
 
My boy has been on it for the last three months and really looks good, very pleased with the results. Currently combining it with chaff, looking to add speedibeet also when he comes in sometime during the next couple of weeks.
 
A word of advice... C&C will not make you horse calm, read the adverts thoroughly and they say that feeding it will not make your horse any MORE fizzy than it already is. I have customers who feed is, and it keeps the weight on, but their horse is still loopy!

I'm voting for the Baileys No 4 top line cubes, and I only ever hear good things about the Topspec cool conditioning cubes.
 
Dito carthorse,
I feed the same as you to my Tb mare, and i soak the calm & condition before hand 1part water the other c & c so it swells. (say's that on the bag), and find this feed very good in gaining weight. tried baileys no 4, did'nt help my mare much.
 
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