Roasted Chestnuts
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Hi there looking for experience or ideas please.
My 24 yr old barefoot Welsh D x Appy is lacking energy at present. He is on a fibre and oil diet due to being barefoot and also because he is cereal intolerant so his diet has to stay below 12% starch.
His field is not particularly lush in grazing due to being grazed all winter and the fact that the weather here has not been great, not a good British summertime at all!!
He is currently fed
Round scoop of just grass
Correct measure of topspec balancer
Round scoop of beetpulp
150g of linseed meal
45g of turmeric/MSM/Glucosamine/cinnamon joint mixture
30g of chasteberry
He was normal levels when last bloodtested. He is fairly fit but lacking muscle as all I've been able to do is hack, it is very hilly where we are but with the ground being so wet I haven't been able to school as all we have is a flat field. He does have arthritis behind which can make him very left rein stiff but after a few weeks of schooling in walk and trot this eases off as he uses himself, however the few schooling sessions we have had are really lacking in energy hence me looking for something different.
I am tempted to going back to his winter regime of feeding but I feel once the grass comes through this will be too much for his waistline and his feet could suffer, I feed a fairly high calorie diet for him in winter, hence why I switch to balancer in the summer to make sure that she's getting what he needs out of smaller feeds.
Winter is two/three feeds of
Dry cup of Veteran vitality soaked
Dry cup of Equerry cool condition mash soaked
1/2 Round scoop of Spillers senior fibre
Beetpulp
300g of Linseed meal and the same of the other supplements.
He had plenty of hacking energy on this, never tried schooling however with the ground being wet. I have had power and performance mentioned to me, to replace the beetpulp, as at the level I would feed potentially (50% recommended) it wouldn't have the full starch content as on the bag (20%) but I'm worried it could trigger his intolerance or go back to the Spillers fibre instead of just grass and cool condition mash instead of beetpulp.
It's a minefield!!
This is how he looks at present
Any idea welcome as I'm currently running out of them
My 24 yr old barefoot Welsh D x Appy is lacking energy at present. He is on a fibre and oil diet due to being barefoot and also because he is cereal intolerant so his diet has to stay below 12% starch.
His field is not particularly lush in grazing due to being grazed all winter and the fact that the weather here has not been great, not a good British summertime at all!!
He is currently fed
Round scoop of just grass
Correct measure of topspec balancer
Round scoop of beetpulp
150g of linseed meal
45g of turmeric/MSM/Glucosamine/cinnamon joint mixture
30g of chasteberry
He was normal levels when last bloodtested. He is fairly fit but lacking muscle as all I've been able to do is hack, it is very hilly where we are but with the ground being so wet I haven't been able to school as all we have is a flat field. He does have arthritis behind which can make him very left rein stiff but after a few weeks of schooling in walk and trot this eases off as he uses himself, however the few schooling sessions we have had are really lacking in energy hence me looking for something different.
I am tempted to going back to his winter regime of feeding but I feel once the grass comes through this will be too much for his waistline and his feet could suffer, I feed a fairly high calorie diet for him in winter, hence why I switch to balancer in the summer to make sure that she's getting what he needs out of smaller feeds.
Winter is two/three feeds of
Dry cup of Veteran vitality soaked
Dry cup of Equerry cool condition mash soaked
1/2 Round scoop of Spillers senior fibre
Beetpulp
300g of Linseed meal and the same of the other supplements.
He had plenty of hacking energy on this, never tried schooling however with the ground being wet. I have had power and performance mentioned to me, to replace the beetpulp, as at the level I would feed potentially (50% recommended) it wouldn't have the full starch content as on the bag (20%) but I'm worried it could trigger his intolerance or go back to the Spillers fibre instead of just grass and cool condition mash instead of beetpulp.
It's a minefield!!
This is how he looks at present
Any idea welcome as I'm currently running out of them