Feed Advice

[Mbronze]

As some of you may know I posted a while ago about my boy loosing alot of weight. Well I have had the vet up and she has taken poo and blood sample etc. But has recommended that i basically overhaul the feed I'm giving him.
She showed me in his poo that there were pieces of cereal there, so unfortunately mixes are out, and as he has so few back teeth he needs something palatable.

So I have proposed to feed him ,vegetable oil, sugabeet, alfa a oil, and something else (vet said to feed something with a high oil content).

I have searched and searched the feed companies, and have come up with the following feeds on my shortlist -

Baileys Outshine Oil 26%
Badminton Feeds Triple Top Up Oil 25%
Saracen Equijewel Oil 18%
Simple System Instant Linseed Oil 43.6%

Has anyone had any experience with the above and weight gain, good or bad?

 

[rehodnett22]

I'd speak to Simple Systems - they have been so helpful with my mare - and I ordered the food on Monday afternoon and had it delivered by Tuesday morning! I am afraid I cannot say how my mare is doing on them yet but I can keep you posted..

My mare is on Lucie Nuts, Blue Bag Grass Pellets, Pura Beet and their mix of seaweed, linseed and yeast. Let's hope she improves..

 

[aran]

When my connie arrived he was really poor and droppings were literally running out of him!
I feed him: alfa beet, dried grass, equivite and Triple Crown Top-Up 250 g/day
http://www.badmintonfeeds.co.uk/downloads/ProductSelector_TripleCrown.pdf
He put on weight and his condition really improved (it wasn't expensive and it worked without making him silly and as it is so calory dense you don't feed a lot so the feeds aren't too big - he thought it was very tasty!).
I feed the instant linseed to my TB. It's great stuff but you don't feed that much of it (100 g/day) so it might not be enough.
I've heard good reports from equijewel and outshine - but their prices put me off. That's why I chose the top-up and was happy with it so didn't need to try anything else.

 

[MontyandZoom]

Monty is now on the Badminton Triple crown feeds. The triple top up is great for conditioning but I would recommend feeding the Equipower base feed as well for vits and mins.

Monty has a mug of Equipower plus alfa a oil and speedy beet and the triple top up in winter. He is a 28yo tb and it is great for sharp horses that need condition.

 

[kellyeaton]

have you had his teeth checked if there are un digested feed in his poo? i would go for something like alfa a oil high fibre nuts and fibre beet that should put weight on or you could even put him on ready fibre mash this is a high oil content high fibre mash made exspecially for vetran horses that need weight gain but can not chew propally due to teeth probs!

 

[gails]

Have started feeding baileys no 4 in the last couple of weeks, top line a we bit better but bum getting nice and big, it even wobbled today