feed advice please!

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Need your help and advice please guys! Getting myself in a pickle...
Right, got a new horse three weeks ago. 12yo part welsh/part arab (we think) 15.1 gelding. Done a lot of jumping in previous home. Now will be doing dressage/hacking etc. Needs to learn to go forward off my leg, but has had a lot of work done on his teeth. Goes nicely but needs a bit more of an engine, and is a bit weak behind and needs a lot more topline. I have put him on hi-fi and calm and condition, but the c and c has made him go super spooky, which is very unlike him.
So...I need a completely non heating feed that will add topline. Have been warned off balancers and speedi beet as have been told sends some loopy. What about baileys lo-cal? Heard this has got barley in it?

Advice please! He lives out at the mo and is on two haynets a day.

Thank you, getting seriuosly stressed!
 
well i have never known my Arab so calm.....since putting him on a balancer and speedibeet and taking away all alfalfa. just because it doesnt work for some does not mean you should rule it out. the only other thing mine has, is grass nuts and a bit of oil and salt.
 
Hi, I have a TB gelding - typical hard to keep weight on but reacts to everything I give him type!!! Calm and Condition sent him loopy. After much experimenting, I have finally got him sorted on Simple Systems blue grass nuts, high fibre cubes and a 1/4 scoop Baileys Lo-Cal Balancer (no 14). He looks fab and is the most chilled he has ever been. The grass nuts especially have been great for getting some weight on and therefore then building some muscle without sending him into Lala land!!!
 
Thanks Chester. Which high fibre cube do you use, and do you feed any kind of chaff or do the grass pellets do it? What does everyone think of simple systems? I was wondering about lucie nuts?
 
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