diet help?

Jericho

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Can I feed Top Spec comp balancer just with Baileys Outshine, Alfafa beet and Alfafa A Oil?

At the moment I am feeding TS Cool and Condition cubes but it seems a bit pointless to add these as not really adding anything particularly as horse is a fussy eater and wont eat a lot in one go.
Other info is that he is a TBx, poor doer (teeth, worm, vet checked all recently) needing some weight on. Ridden once a week, out 24/7 rugged well with shelter and adlib haylage. Dont want to feed cereals and doesnt need anything for energy wise as full of it already but needing weight on. I like TS Comp Balancer as has good levels of protein (unlike a vit/min supplement) biotin and yeast priobotics for effective gut digestion and not many products have that combination and it has all the nutrients / mins / vits he needs). I am trying Outshine to try and put some weight on (as high calories and like the linseed and oil combination - used to feed them seperarately but got quite expensive) and use Alfafa A oil and Alfafa beet because most calorific of their kind and no cereal.

Does this sound balanced or is there too much oil in there?
 
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Can I feed Top Spec comp balancer just with Baileys Outshine, Alfafa beet and Alfafa A Oil?

[/ QUOTE ] Yes you can - but personally I would feed unmollassed beet (something like Speedibeet) instead of AlfaBeet, as it contains more calories.

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Does this sound balanced or is there too much oil in there?

[/ QUOTE ] If you are feeding a lot of oil, then you are meant to add extra micronutrients to support the utilisation of oil - but these are provided in the Outshine, so the high levels of oil shouldn't be a problem.
 
thanks TGM - you are always so helpful!

Interesting about the Alfa beet as that is marketed as a conditioning feed but you are right as I looked at mj/kg and it is 10.5 comapred to Speedibeet which is 12.5. (although lower oil and protein)
 
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