can anyone a barefoot friendly diet?

[fredflop]

I will do my research on it, however can anyone recommend a barefoot friendly diet for a tb living out, needing to maintain weight, but a reasonable doer

Thank you

 

[Rosiejazzandpia]

Fibre based, low sugar and starch with a balance of all essential vits and minerals.
Easy things to start with are switching molassed chop to a light chaff with no added molasses. Switch sugary mixes to a balancer and speak to vet if there's any vitamin or mineral imbalance in your grazing

 

[Leo Walker]

Or feed something like Agrobs etc and add a decent mineral balancer unless you make your own forage and have your own land. Add a big dose of salt and linseed, less for a good doer, more for a poor one.

I feed a big handful of agrobs museli, salt and the cheapest progressive earth balancer as mine also gets adlib good quality hay and works hard.

 

[SEL]

I like Forage Plus balancers. Linseed to keep weight on, together with a molasses free chaff. Mine get mixed together with a scoop of kwik beet and a bit of salt.

 

[cobsarefab]

The pure feeds company do a wonderful range that are barefoot friendly and linseed oil has done wonders for cobbus feet.

 

[Nasicus]

Got my two on Honeychop Plain Oat Straw Chaff and Keyflow Pink Mash, supplemented with Progressive Earth Pro-Balance+, Salt and Micronized Linseed.
Works well for my two, the main 'feed' part is all low sugar/low starch, good for mine as they are good doers, and allows me to tailor it as needed. Could probably increase amounts of linseed in it for a not-so-good doer, or use a more nutritious chaff.

 

[ycbm]

Or feed something like Agrobs etc and add a decent mineral balancer unless you make your own forage and have your own land. Add a big dose of salt and linseed, less for a good doer, more for a poor one.

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I'm not sure if I've understood you FW? If I made forage off my own land it would be horribly unbalanced in iron and manganese. I prefer to buy in from a more balanced area.

 

[ester]

non molassed grass chaff (a fair few about these days, with varying energy/sugar/starch levels)
micronised linseed (charnwoods)
high spec vit/min supplement (Forageplus, proearth, equimins, equivita) + salt
if horse needs more weight, more linseed, unmolassed beet
more energy, oats.

 

[ester]

I'm not sure if I've understood you FW? If I made forage off my own land it would be horribly unbalanced in iron and manganese. I prefer to buy in from a more balanced area.

I think she just meant then it is feasible to test your forage.

 

[ycbm]

I think she just meant then it is feasible to test your forage.

Ah, I see! Yes that makes sense.

 

[amandaco2]

meadow grass grazing and hay.
TB chaff.
I use basemix and copra for my ulcer horse who needs a bit more help maintaining weight.
I did use saked whole oats for my PSG lad too which helped but copra was much better for weight so I phased out the oats.

 

[PoppyAnderson]

non molassed grass chaff (a fair few about these days, with varying energy/sugar/starch levels)
micronised linseed (charnwoods)
high spec vit/min supplement (Forageplus, proearth, equimins, equivita) + salt
if horse needs more weight, more linseed, unmolassed beet
more energy, oats.

This!

 

[Dave's Mam]

Those of you feeding salt. Do you just use ordinary salt & what are the benefits? Honest question.

 

[ester]

so salt wise- normal table salt has an anticaking agent so some get a bit iffy about that.
himalyan rock salt has iron in it so some people don't like that.
Frank has both . well I lie, he used to have both, now he just has a block in his stable, but he barely touches it, but that's because he mostly does diddly squat these days, he had table salt when he was working.

The reason it gets added separately is because if they include it in the powdered mineral mixes it screws everything else up, so they don't.

 

[Dave's Mam]

Thanks, I will get some salt, how much do you give, just a spoonful in feed?

 

[ester]

one of my little blue scoops, that doesn't help does it prob a teaspoon twice a day, more if sweating a lot...

interestingly FP add salt to theirs but I think they are careful to keep it dry on packaging
https://forageplus.co.uk/salt-in-horse-feed-balancers/

there is some maths here if you are interested essentially it depends on sodium requirements
http://www.hygain.com.au/adding-salt-horses-diet/

 

[Dave's Mam]

one of my little blue scoops, that doesn't help does it prob a teaspoon twice a day, more if sweating a lot...

interestingly FP add salt to theirs but I think they are careful to keep it dry on packaging
https://forageplus.co.uk/salt-in-horse-feed-balancers/

there is some maths here if you are interested essentially it depends on sodium requirements
http://www.hygain.com.au/adding-salt-horses-diet/

Thanks!

 

[Leo Walker]

I feed 40gms a day more if hes sweated.

http://www.calmhealthyhorses.com/solution/salt.html