Neptune
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What would you be feeding to this horse?
16.2hh Gelding. Had an injury in the summer so was off work. slowly been bought back into work and currently starting trot work at 5 mins and upping by 5 mins weekly. Vets advice to get muscle built back up to support the injured site. Hill work / pole work / Pessoa to build the topline.
But not sure what feed to give to support the muscle building. He is currently fed adlib hay at night heaped scoop of alfa-a lite split between breakfast and dinner with vit and min supplement. Grazing has enough grass but is winter grass, out for around 3-4 hours a day or in the stable all day with more adlib hay if the weather is bad. He is looking pretty good weight wise with a lovely shiney healthy coat, so the adlib hay is obviously doing its job. He does not need anything for furthur energy or excitability, he has plenty for himself! Just need some protein added to the feed with out the extra weight conditioning.
He was being fed Speedibeet and Micronised linseed as additional (without the ad lib hay) just standard amount of hay. at the beginning of the year to help build the muscle but it never seemed to come. Which maybe the injury which was undetected at this time may have been a contribution as to why the muscle did not come. But he was twice a week lunged in the equi-ami and working correctly from behind in the school. So am a bit reluctant to go down the speedibeet and linseed route again as it didn't seem to work for him last time.
So any other ideas? I did start on the baileys topline conditioning cubes previously as well, but they then the injury was found so he was taken off of all the additional feed whilst on box rest.
Thanks
16.2hh Gelding. Had an injury in the summer so was off work. slowly been bought back into work and currently starting trot work at 5 mins and upping by 5 mins weekly. Vets advice to get muscle built back up to support the injured site. Hill work / pole work / Pessoa to build the topline.
But not sure what feed to give to support the muscle building. He is currently fed adlib hay at night heaped scoop of alfa-a lite split between breakfast and dinner with vit and min supplement. Grazing has enough grass but is winter grass, out for around 3-4 hours a day or in the stable all day with more adlib hay if the weather is bad. He is looking pretty good weight wise with a lovely shiney healthy coat, so the adlib hay is obviously doing its job. He does not need anything for furthur energy or excitability, he has plenty for himself! Just need some protein added to the feed with out the extra weight conditioning.
He was being fed Speedibeet and Micronised linseed as additional (without the ad lib hay) just standard amount of hay. at the beginning of the year to help build the muscle but it never seemed to come. Which maybe the injury which was undetected at this time may have been a contribution as to why the muscle did not come. But he was twice a week lunged in the equi-ami and working correctly from behind in the school. So am a bit reluctant to go down the speedibeet and linseed route again as it didn't seem to work for him last time.
So any other ideas? I did start on the baileys topline conditioning cubes previously as well, but they then the injury was found so he was taken off of all the additional feed whilst on box rest.
Thanks
