Dodson & Horrell Cushcare/ balancers/ condition/ weight gain

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Has any one tried this? H is looking a bit out of condition especially over his hips lately. We are still doing long hacks on a weekend so I've upped his food but wondering if he needs the extra help of something like this or if anyone can suggest any other balancers or anything else that may help put a bit of condition back on him. Possibly also a little weight but don't want him to get massive.

He had blood test recently and levels were fine he's on 1 and a half prascend a day.

Also can this be used in conjunction with prascend? Will probably speak to local feed shop too but just wondering if anyone has any experience of said product as it sounds like it does what I'm looking for.

He's 20 so think some is old age but he may need some extra help now. He's on hifi light and pasture cubes and also oats.

Also please let me know suggestions that aren't going to send him mental as he's of nervous disposition so don't want to encourage that anymore than already in place.
 
They are a good place to start, perhaps replace the fibre cubes and oats?
A lot of the feeds aimed at ulcer horses are also good options to condition cushings horses - baileys ease & excel / topspec ulsakind etc.
Another feed I really rate is GWF fibregest no starch, it really helped my cushings/lami prone TB get through winter
 
I gave cushcare to my mare when she went off her normal feed, she seemed to enjoy it. I discovered the problem was her meds were too high at the time, so once levelled out she went back to eating normally again, so probably only had cushcare for 2 months, so didn't see many changes in that time
 
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