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My boy is currently on Honey chop lite and healthy, some micronised linseed and a NAF balancer.
I'm looking to add something for a little weight gain but without adding any fizz/energy.

What do people recommend?
 
Equijewel or copra is what I have used for my Arab's over the years, you could use a grass chaff instead of the lite one that will help and I've never known it to fizz mine up, can you up the linseed how much you feeding?

I've also found ad lib hay helps.
 
Pinkvboots said:
Equijewel or copra is what I have used for my Arab's over the years, you could use a grass chaff instead of the lite one that will help and I've never known it to fizz mine up, can you up the linseed how much you feeding?

I've also found ad lib hay helps.
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He had that chaff through summer and so that's what I've stuck too. Him and my Dartmoor gain weight so easily during summer that I wanted something 'light' to have their balancer with.

He gets 150g a day of linseed.

He has access to grass and also haynets during the day and night.
 
I would recommend changing the chaff from a diet version to a standard chaff. Perhaps also add some grass nuts of you still felt that extra was required.

Be careful that there will be sugar spikes in the grass with frosts. What body condition score are they? Rember horses are supposed to drop some condition / weight over winter. Marketing companies have done a spectacular job making us think that we need to be feeding when often we do not, especially with good doers and natives.

I would also recommend changing away from the NAF balancer. If you read the ingredients it really does not fit the bill as a balancer or all around vitamin and mineral supplement.

Progressive Earth Pro Mineral or Pro Balance would be good alternatives in a very similar price bracket.
 
I've bought some speedi beet for mine to keep weight on through the winter.

Its ideal for horses on a low starch diet needing low sugar, high fibre calories and for good-doers who need to be kept chewing, while controlling calorie intake.

There's more sugar in a medium sized carrot than in a whole scoop of speedi beet or so they used to say on their website.
 
I feed my oldies Fibre Beet. It’s similar to speedibeet, with Alfalfa, but more calories. If it’s just a little extra you need, Id go for Speedibeet
 
As you are already on the Honeychop range. How about upgrading to honeychop topline and shine?
Its high in oil and protein, but free from molasses, soya, etc so very similar to lie and healthy. Minimal alfalfa, so nothing to heat them up.
Just put my youngsters on it and they eat it up ok and it smells pretty good!
 
I don’t think you need to be going too ott on this given your current feeding isn’t particularly punchy.

Exchange the light chaff for an oil/conditioning chaff version and then add in some form of fibre mash (soaked grass nuts/sugar beet or similar)
 
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