Dengie Alfa A Oil

Orchardbeck

Orchardbeck

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Experiences please! I started a post on the feeding forum which outlines my reasons for asking about it, so I won't bore on and repeat them here. Just wondered how people got on with it, and if you would feed it to a laminitic who needed to put a little bit of weight on.
 
personally i love the stuff, its great for condition and my horses love it BUT i do also have one that is intollerant to it and it seems quite common so i would always be cautious when feeding for the first time
 
I was debating this or the Alfa A Mollasses free, decided to go with the mollasses free one in the end as I already feed micronised linseed.
Only just started it but the horses adore it! Doodle tried to break down the tack room door for it :D.

Not quite the same reasons as you (will go nosy at your other thread) as she is Cushings and now diagnosed with stomach ulcers.

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I have used micronised linseed in the past but i'm trying to streamline my feeding regime as have a new baby on the way and need to make it easy for my helpers (hubby and MIL!) I just don't want to feed two products if one will do the trick, if that makes sense. I might just stick to the Hi First molasses free I am feeding but add more linseed.

I also think the Top Spec Senior balancer I'm feeding is making her a loony, we might return to the Naf in the pink senior balancer...
 
his intolerance displayed itself in the form of severe sweet itch, he was almost PTS it was so bad but with no thanks to the vet atall, it was only through this forum i discovered the possibility of alpha intolerance so took him off it and its like a miracle! so just something to watch out for but i would recomend it :)
 
Thanks Micky, I'll do that. I ordered a new bag of linseed yesterday so I think I'm going to stick with what she's got but add more linseed, we have been through many feed options in the past and I have a feeling she could have been sensitive to alfalfa at one point - luckily the HiFI molasses free seems to be OK for.her and she is able.to manage it with her diastema.

When I look at her properly she actually isn't as bad as I thought (more of a racehorse physique than fat pony, and I have been trying my to keep her weight down so that isn't too worrying). She seems to have loads more energy at the min too. She just looks skinny next to my fat sec A who is getting the muzzle put back on today...
 
Used it for my elderly mare to keep weight on. Not as palatable as some of their feeds but it did the job. She made it to32 before I really found it difficult to keep weight on and called it a day. I think the AAoil really made the difference. I mixed it with calm and conditioner.
 
Orchardbeck said:
I have used micronised linseed in the past but i'm trying to streamline my feeding regime as have a new baby on the way and need to make it easy for my helpers (hubby and MIL!) I just don't want to feed two products if one will do the trick, if that makes sense. I might just stick to the Hi First molasses free I am feeding but add more linseed.

I also think the Top Spec Senior balancer I'm feeding is making her a loony, we might return to the Naf in the pink senior balancer...
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I have had terrible problems with Pink Powder - it made 2 ridden horses very footy and 'difficult' in general. Are you absolutely certain that you need a balancer?
 
That's interesting Pearl, mine wasn't footy on it, but she did look well. I haven't really ever considered whether we 'need' a balancer to be honest, I just have fed them for years! I had my mare on a Top Spec one after her first attack of laminitis (she's had two) and thinking back, it sent her and another mare I had loopy so I should have remembered that!

I tried the forage plus winter health one for a while but the senior pink powder was the only one where I could see a noticeable difference, plus it has a joint supplement in it too. I swapped to the pelleted ones about 6 weeks ago as it had linseed built in so it was one less thing to feed, but I think she needs more.
 
Obviously I haven't seen your horse so cannot comment specifically but I have had so many bad experiences with supplements of various kinds with different horses, that I now NEVER feed blended supplements, such as balancers, so that if I add something and a problem starts I can begin to work out if feed is the cause and which ingredient specifically. I have fed Glucosamine successfully to elderly horses for their joints but I have also had a nightmare experience with it with one horse, who was ultimately pts, which I am convinced was caused indirectly by the supplement.
 
I was another that had a horse that had some sort of intolerance to Alfa A Oil. He presented with mud fever/photosensitivity symptoms which have never reoccurred since we stopped feeding this. The rest of the horses did really well on it though.
 
Wimbles, mine had also shown symptoms like that in the past (most summers actually) but I don't know if it was due to alfalfa or something else - I always assumed buttercups.

Oddly she hasn't got them this year - I hadn't thought of it until now - but we sprayed the buttercups last year and don't have any there just now.

Pearl, I totally get why you don't feed blended balancers - I was heading that way and feeding lots of ingredients separately, but when I needed to leave them for two weeks to go on hol I realised how difficult it would be for someone else to feed them whilst I was away.this will also apply when the new baby comes and I need help!
 
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