Does this Feed sound Right......

[3Beasties]

for my TB. He is 15, 16.2hh, in at night (with ad lib hay) and out on good grass during the day.

At the moment I can just see his ribs but he has/is putting weight on at the moment due to the good grass he's just been moved onto. He is lacking topline.

Currently he gets fed twice a day (would love to feed him 3 times but I just can't fit it in!) -

Morning -
1 Stubbs scoop Alfa A Oil
Half a small square scoop of Bran
Half a small square scoop of Top line conditioning cubes
Mixed up with a good dollop of sugar beet


Evening -
1 Stubbs scoop Alfa A Oil
Half a small square scoop of Bran
Half a small square scoop of Top line conditioning cubes
1 stubbs scoop of Calm and Condition soaked


The evening feed always seems massive due to the calm and condition so I'm not sure if I should change it to half a scoop morning and night and also split the sugar beet between the two feeds, what do you think?

He gets the small amount of Top line conditioning cubes as he was originally going to be fed them instead of the C&C but they seemed to send him a bit loopy so I've cut back to A. Hopefully give him a slight energy boost but not make him boil over and B. Shamefully to use the last of the bag up!

Is there anything else I could swap the conditioning cubes for, he could do with a bit more energy but I don't want him turning himself inside out. Do you think an endurance type mix might work as it's slow released energy?

Anything drastically wrong with the above?

 

[doris2008]

Personally the only thing missing to me is a vit/min supplement or balancer - to make sure he is getting the most from his feed.
In comparison my 16.2TB is currently on:

Morning & Evening
1/2 stubbs scoop alfa a
1/4 stubbs scoop TS cool conditioning cubes
1 scoop pink powder

Ad lib hay or haylage at night
Good grass in day - he is fat!!

Once winter really sets in he will get alfa a oil and either unmolassed beet or grass nuts if he needs topping up.

I used calm & condition a couple of years back and it did make a big feed - horse got bored with it after a while. Last year he wintered on no 4 and was out of work - he seemed fairly level headed!

Another option for controlled energy is spillers slow release cubes/mix - heard a lot of good reports for that.
I have moved onto the cool conditioning cubes as they have are good for conditioning but cereal free - thus less likely to explode brain!

 

[TGM]

Difficult to judge without knowing the size of your scoops or how much the sugar beet and C&C weigh dry!

When you have finished the Topline Cubes up, you could replace them by just upping the Calm & Condition. If you don't find the Calm & Condition gives him enough 'oomph' but don't want the full-on loopiness of the Topline Cubes, then you could try Dodson & Horrell Staypower Cubes - same calorie content as the Calm & Condition and quite a bit less starch than the Topline Cubes.

 

[3Beasties]

Sorry should have added he does get a Vit and Mineral supplement added to each feed

The dry weight of beet he has isn't much, I make enough up for two days and dry I use a small scoop of it, when soaked it makes up half a black bucket full which is then split between two feeds. (I have it quite sloppy!).

I would say the small scoops I use are equivalent to half a stubbs scoop, I really should work it out properly though by weight.

Might give the stay power cubes a try as I don't think he'd eat much more C&C.

 

[Hippona]

Another option for controlled energy is spillers slow release cubes/mix - heard a lot of good reports for that.
I have moved onto the cool conditioning cubes as they have are good for conditioning but cereal free - thus less likely to explode brain!

These are great....I've used the cubes on a sharp horse who never really kept condition...until these. He stayed sane too.....always a bonus.