feed for my old ''codge''

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siani1989

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29 year old mare
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help weight well till now
i have tried all the baileys and the 16+ mixes and nothing seems to help put weight on her at moment wormed up to date has very long lush grass to eat teeth all ok
 
Have you tried Spillers senior conditioning mix?

I feed it along with Topspec senior balancer for my old girl.
 
I use dodsen 16+ with Mollichaff veteran which is full of yummy things and smells all minty and dengie senior as my 25yr old was struggling with weight this year and he is going like a train now, looking fab and putting the weight on really well. He's also on ad-lib hay/haylage
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How about adding some oil to her feed. Or maybe some linseed chips or barley. Must admit I tried all the old age feed on my boy and they made no difference and he wasn't that keen on them. He know just has fibergy which is great and pasturemix with added old age supplement from global herbs. He is looking good.
 
I recently took on an old mare, who's als very poor and she's doing really well on micronised barley, soaked sugar beet, Alpha A, corn oil (though Dengie do an Alpha A Oil version) and Biotal Equine Gold.

I've also had good results previously with Farnhams weight builder supplement.
my old lady has her meals split over 4 meals (not possible for everyone, I know) is kept warm and has hay on offer constantly.

My vet mentioned to me the other day, as I explained that she doesn't eat a lot of hay whilst turned out, that as the goodness in the grass in declining it might pay to put her in the fatties paddock for a substantial part of her turnout with haylage, as then she's spending her time filling up on a higher quality forage, rather than wasting time seeking out and consuming smaller quantities of less nutritious grass.
 
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