Can anyone suggest me a feeding regime for the winter please?

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for a 16.2hh TB. Not a bad doer (for a TB!!) but gets hyper on any cereal. Out at day, in at night with a blanket clip, ridden for an hour a day roughly with occasional competitions. Ad lib hay when in and out. Ideally to be only fed once a day but could do 2 feeds at a push. Will hopefully be going into the winter in good condition.

Its the quantities I'm really confused about, could anyone suggest a feeding regime?
 
Hay, hay and more hay.

As your horse is a good doer and in light work, unless he begins to drop weight I would stick to fibre. If you want to bucket feed go for one of the oily chaffs which will give condition and a little fuel for work. Just add a good vitamin and mineral supplement or the recommended amount of a feed balancer such as Top Spec..

Use a weigh tape and condition score card a couple of times a month to monitor weight loss and gain and if all remains stable then theres no need to add anything else.
 
TopSpec balancer with Alfa A Oil. Add AlfaBeet if he starts to drop condition. OH's TB is on this and looks brilliant, he is a 16yr old ex racer, not a poor doer. Came to us on barley, competition mix and pony nuts and was sky high and stupid to handle. He is a laid back creature now.
 
Baileys Lo-Cal and outshine. All 3 Horses I've owned I've fed on this combination through the year and all have noticeable improved condition, kept weight on and not gone bonkers!! Up the outshine as necessary. I find 1 mug in summer, 2 in winter works.
 
Contact any of the feed producers, Dodson & Horrell, Spillers, Baileys etc. Tell them the details of your horse, what you feed him now, what work you do etc & they will come up with a feeding regime that should suit.
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Sounds like all you need is a feed balancer like Blue Chip, maybe bulked out with a bit of sugar beet. Do watch his condition though, and feed according to work.
 
A horse should get no less than 1.5% of bodyweight and no more than 2.5%.

The most important thing you can feed a horse is fibre that should make up at least 80% of the feed this includes hay/haylage and chaff etc.

I would also include a feed balancer such as blue chip for vits, mins, probiotics etc with something like spillers conditioning chaff to avoid cereals. There is always the option of adding in unmolassed sugar bit if this is not enough.

I would contact a feed company too, but chose a feed company whose feeds you can easily get hold of locally.
 
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