Feed my fizzy pony!

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horcrrux

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Just wondering if anyone can give me advice about feeding. I used to live in a place where we pretty much had one feed choice throughout the whole country as well as one choice of sugarbeet and chaff and no grass..so having all the different options now is confusing and overwhelming :D

My mare is currently on adlib hay inside, on grass for a few hours a day and has 4 mugs of pegasus mix, linseed oil and probalance split into 2 feeds and is looking good on it, however she's getting a bit fizzy lately.
She had about 5-6 weeks off ridden when I got her because she needed lots of ground and lunging work and I was waiting for saddle fitter but came back fine. She is amazing when she relaxes but gets very tense and giddy sometimes and takes ages to relax. She has no back, teeth or tack problems so it's just a case of being fizzy and young I think.

She's at perfect weight and is developing topline just fine etc. but just wondering if anyone can recommend changes in her diet that will help her maintain condition and not send her loopy :D
 
I would cut out the mix this is what is more than likely sending her nuts, most mix is coated in molasses so it could also be this that she is reacting to, I have arabs and they cant have molasses for the same reason, I mainly feed an unmolassed chaff in the hifi range and unmolassed sugar beet, they also get copra and linseed for condition depending on how they look and work load.

As her weight is ok I would just give her a small feed of just chaff to start with just to put the supplements in and see how she goes, if she starts to drop off you could up the linseed before adding anything else, thing is she may turn her nose up at a basic chaff after eating a molasses rich diet but many horses get used to it.
 
I would swap the mix (which is likely to be high in cereals/sugar) for something fibre-based. There are lots of options - high fibre cubes, unmollassed beet, non-mollassed chaff etc., depending on how much of a good doer she is and what her/your feed preferences are.
 
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