Coat change = dry coat? what to use?

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My boy has been clipped lateish, and it seems that when he's changing coat it tends to look dry and scruffy. Any suggestions for a supplement and or topical treatment to help this? He's currently on a good balancer, seaweed, cod liver oil...and I have started wiping him down head to tail with baby oil.
 
PP, I would substitute the Cod Liver Oil with good old fashioned corn oil, or Soya. A good glug a day. His coat should come right very quickly.
 
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My boy has been clipped lateish, and it seems that when he's changing coat it tends to look dry and scruffy. Any suggestions for a supplement and or topical treatment to help this? He's currently on a good balancer, seaweed, cod liver oil...and I have started wiping him down head to tail with baby oil.
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I find this works really well, my horse's coat goes a bit funny when it changes so I've put him back on it, I find its really good, I put 2 squirts in each feed

It would help if a pasted the link ha ha

http://www.millbryhill.co.uk/equest...rbs-oils-784/garlic-parsley-linseed-33656.htm
 
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To avoid this I feed full fat cooked linseed meal from January onwards until the spring molt is over and the good spring grass in back in. Even now it would work wonders in a matter of a week or so if you started it now. I didn't give some to one of mine this winter (she's VERY fussy) and the difference in her coat condition was soooo evident. I started her on a mug of linseed meal back along and the difference within a week or two was outstanding. I unrugged her for the farrier last month and half the yard stopped to gasp at her shiny and smooth soft coat. :D
 
Change your balancer to Bailey's outshine.
All the good balancer properties plus outstanding shine on the coat. My mare when she normally changes her coat goes all scabby and dry, this year, even the dead coat that is falling out is shiney and healthy.
a mug twice a day which is under what they reccommend for her weight etc.... three weeks later i could feel it on her, she is like velvet and even her legs feel lovely.
 
Thanks all for your replies. I'm wondering how "fattening" some of these remedies are? I am using the Cod Liver oil as recommended by a nutritionist as it's meant to be good for Insulin Resitant horses. He's not IR as such, but it's a precautionary measure as I've spent a good solid year trying to get his weight down, and now that it's near to his ideal, I am a bit titchy about what to feed.

I agree, that the linseed or soya would probably be best and to feed the shine in to him. So if I can't change the diet without adverse affects (eg weight gain) ....how about some topical suggestions? :)
 
The product I said about wouldn't be enough to put weight on, I have to watch my horses weight as he had lami before so I wouldn't feed anything fattening. I've seen it have good results on few horses on my yard
 
Outshine is NOT a balancer - it says so in their product leaflet on it. It does have high calorie count, but only used for weight gain in fed in 1kg+ quantities a day. If you ring their nutrition hot line, they will tell you ideal amount to feed.
 
I had this problem recently, I started putting a good slug of vegetable oil in his feed each day and within a couple of weeks he was shining :D have got them all on it now, very cheap too!:D
 
I have put mine on saracen equijewel, but nearly went for outshine.
I also hot cloth mine when I want to see what the coat really looks like. I use baby oil and hibiscrub in the water to cleanse and condition the coat.

They are looking loads better.
 
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