Conditioning feeds with low protein

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Can anyone recommend any?

Horse comes up in huge hot lumps all over his body and twitches when he has a lot of protein in.his diet.

He even does this on hayledge.

I've been looking for a low protein but good to put weight on and won't affect his ulcers feed but feeling a bit lost looking.

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Molichaff hoofkind is low protein and ok on the calorie front. I think you will struggle as conditioning feeds are normally higher in protein.

However what do you class as high protein ?
 
Bucket feeds only form a tiny percentage of the daily diet, for me forage (or even grass) would be where I was looking to improve his diet, especially if he is prone to ulcers. How good is your hay - was it made well and early enough, and is he getting plenty? And do the lumps disappear once his system becomes used to whatever he is ingesting? Most so-called protein lumps (they may not actually be a reaction to protein but to something else in the diet) do, after maybe three or four days, so might it be worth you hanging in there?
Or a good probiotic might help him maximise the value of whatever food he is getting, be it fodder or bucket feed - sorry, I know that wasn't what you asked but very low protein might impact not only his soft tissue repair but also his immune system.
 
He gets ad-lib hay, he has been on this feed for three months and hasn't gotten.used to it at all.

Can't have oil as he gets grumpy on it.

What I've been feeding him is alfalfa based but seems even on the lower levels he still.comes up in bumps though not as bad.

From.what I can work out he can't have higher than 22% as a bucket feed as he was on alpha beet and fibre nuggets last winter (which is 14%for alpha beet and 8% for the nuggets) and had small lumps with out the extra reaction in my op.
 
But the 14 and 8 won't give you a protein content of 22%, if you fed equal quantities of each you'd be looking at an average of 11%.

Could it be a reaction to alfalfa
 
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