feed Advice about my horse

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Hi everyone I'm purple18 i'm looking for some advice about my horse who is a welsh section d x andalusian around 500kg, 14.3hh and will be three this may
she isn't yet in work and she spends most of her days in her field which doesn't have much grass and has hay in there she only soenst about 6 hours a day out. she's an awfully spooky horse i'm guessing given her age she is currently on chamomile for calming purposes but as i have just put her on a new set i'm wondering if it's not working aswell as it did. Iv'e tried to find feeds with no or little sugar so i swapped her to hi fi molasses free, Pegasus cubes,Simple systems lucie brix and speeibeet

I weigh everything she has so have a very clear knowledge of what she is getting


she gets

pegasus 300g per feed (so 150g each)


around 200g per feed of hi fi molasses free


one lucie Brix at night (1kg)

and 150g of speeibeet spilt between two

she also has garlic, flax oil and biotin

and around 12kg of hay per day


thanks for any advice and help in advance :)
 
is there any of these that people might think could be causing her to get more fizzy when i mean fizzy i mean dangerously fizzy or if anyone kows of any other feeds that i can swap her to ?

thanks everyone
 
For a horse doing no work that sounds like a lot to me. I have a "hot" PRE who only gets half a scoop of hi fi mollasses free twice a day, in addition to hay and he is in full work. He has plenty of energy and so I don't feed him anything else
Personally I would cut out all other feed except hay.

If she is being fizzy it could be that she needs some exercise. Between the ages of 5 and 7 I used to have to lunge mine before I rode him as he was very fizzy.
 
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Hi, If you phone any of the big feed companies they will have a nutritionalist who will give you good advise, although they will obviously want to sell their own products, so phone 2 or 3.
Sugar beet is known to fizz up some but not all horses.
I've always given my horse a calming diet, and he has Mollichaff Calmer and Pegasus nuts. I also buy Calmag (magnesium calmer). I swear by it because whenever I've run out I know about it! Its very cheap and last ages, and is also good for their feet :)
 
when I say work I mean no work as in ridden work she's taken in the school between 3 to 4 times a week nothing more than a walk in hand thank you for your advice
 
Herts05 I did email afew and got no reply :P the sugarbeet was something i was alittle worried about feeding her it but got talked into trying it she used to just be on the dengie alfa a mosslasses free i wish i'd just keep her on that now no where near as bad as she is now :(
 
she recently stopped eating her hay totally due to a hose dieing on the yard where i'm at so i'm trying not to give her too much to try not to over face her too soon i'm dropped her feed today and will carry on reducing it overthe next few days :) thanks everyone
 
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