coolstance/ coconut oil

I used it last winter to help top up calories for my competition horse. It's funny stuff, looks like a sack of sand!!! It soaks up lots of water to form a pina colada mush!!! Horse ate it though and looked well, I fed it in combo with alfa, and performance cubes
 
Mine get it all the year round, added to other things in winter and as the carrier for vits and mins in summer. They love it, a little goes a long way and they all look great on it. Youngstock need extra calcium to balance it.
 
I have feed it in the past to my fussy cob, it took a while to introduce but he ate it happily after this period and looked fab, and as ''the watcher'' says a little goes far.
 
think I may try and get some of this then, not sure if my local feedmerchants do it though, so wanted to have some feedback first before travelling quite a way to get some.
 
Just looked it up on the website as it is raining and I'm stuck indoors, are you feeding it for medical reasons? What's that bit about don't feed with seed heads of hay? or is that for allergies? Sorry for being dumb.
 
havent had a chance to look on website, usually get better info from on here lol,
I spoke to a freind this morning who said it was really good for putting on weight and condition to coat without hotting up the horse,
Ive just seen my mare after 4 weeks, (I have broke my toes so had someone else riding/checking on her her for me)
I feel she has lost quite a bit of condition, this is the reason I was looking to feed it to her, also heard it is good for the gut and my mare can be a bit stressy so think it may help.
 
rangerover said:
Just looked it up on the website as it is raining and I'm stuck indoors, are you feeding it for medical reasons? What's that bit about don't feed with seed heads of hay? or is that for allergies? Sorry for being dumb.
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Haven't seen that but they do make a big thing about it being the base for a cereal free diet, so it is probably in support of that.
 
nikkinoo said:
has anyone used this and how did you find it, I dont know much about it so any info greatly apreciated
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I've used it for 2 years continuously varying the amounts depending on what time of year it is. It's a high oil/protein feed so it doesn't cause any fizzy or stupid behaviour, it gives a brilliant shine to the coat, and is really good for keeping weight on, so go easy if you've got porkers! One of mine is a poor doer and the other one is a porker so he still has it but in vastly reduced quantities. I like it and they seem to like it too. Never had any probs with fussiness or whatever. It does have to be soaked though so I know some people not into soaking stuff etc but worth it.
 
it really is great stuff i had a skinny horse liveried with me last year we tried everything baileys no 1 etc etc loads of hay and this was the only thing that worked !!

I know feed all mine on it - even my competition horse who is a little sharp and it did not change him at all x
 
how long does it have to be soaked for? warm or cold water? what ratio is the mix water to feed? sorry for being a bit technical, only other half feeds my horses for me some night so dont want anything too complicated for him, I stopped feding sugar beet incase or any mistakes.
 
Doesn't take long to soak - I don't presoak but add water to the feed and leave it 5 minutes.
Smells gorgeous.

I feed it because mine was fed it when being rehabbed and came back looking so good I didn't change anything.

He gets about a 1 kilo (half a stubbs scoop) split into 2 feeds and then the same of alfalfa pellets. Doesn't look alot but it fluffs right up.
 
Love the stuff - my yearling came to me having been weaned on the stuff and I'm so pleased with how he looks and how economical it is I'll be putting my other horses on it when their other feed runs out!

I make up feeds with 1 part Copra to 3 parts water and it soaks whilst I'm poo picking the paddock.

I got two sacks for him in mid May @ £16 a pop.....only started the second sack a week ago! I mix his with a handful of Mollichaff High Fibre Alfalfa and Equine Answers 365 complete vit & min supplement.

Fabulous stuff!!
 
It's really good stuff and I fed it to mine for a number of years.

However, it has gone from £8 a bag to £15 a bag which I think is taking the p*** so I don't buy it anymore.
 
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used to be sold as "boomerang" very popular in the showing world. a little goes a long way but made up looks like a bucket of sick! minus the carrots. all seem to do well on it but needs to be introduced slowly an aquired taste! i pay £18 per bag. keps them fat and shiny!
 
nikkinoo said:
how long does it have to be soaked for? warm or cold water? what ratio is the mix water to feed? sorry for being a bit technical, only other half feeds my horses for me some night so dont want anything too complicated for him, I stopped feding sugar beet incase or any mistakes.
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I soak mine overnight, but only because it's easier to do that, not cos you need to. I mix it with my speedibeet, & alfa beeet. My skinny TB gets a heaped coffea mug full of each into a bucket and then I add about 5 litres of water but his feed requires extra water anyway so I probably add far too much. My porker gets a level coffea cup of each in about 3 litres of water. I do mine in cold water but if you didn't want to soak over night you could do it with hot and wait about 10 mins but I do prefer to let mine have a proper soak. Once it's soaked I just tip the whole bucket into his hard feed, mix it up and then split it in two (breakfast & dinner). Job done. Seemples!
 
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