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For a 14.1hh connemara x, 13 years old, he's about 465kg at the moment, a bit of a fatty! He's a good doer in the summer.

However he loses weight in the winter so he has haylage instead of hay, last year he had chaff and a vit/min supplemnent. Want to drop the supplememt and go for a feed that will provide them instead. Felt a bit mean only giving him chaff but steered clear of mixes as pasture mix sends him loopy. In the summer he's quite steady and sometimes lazy, but in the winter he does get sharp once he's clipped, in November, so we need a feed to go with his Hi-Fi Lite that will provide all of his vits and mins and that will maintain his weight, but won't make him fizzy.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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Hmm was thinking about that, it'd be fine for summer but in winter he's gonna need extra calories

Forgot to say, he's currently in work 6 days a week, schooling, jumping and hacking.
What do you think on Allen & Page Fast Fibre?
 
Hi,
I spoke to a lovely equine nutrionalist from Spillers last week about a feeding regime for my gelding. He's a good doer as well so needed advice on feed that would provide him with enough energy for the work he's doing without him gaining too much weight. Her advice to me was to feed Hi-fi Lite along with Spillers Slow Release Energy cubes. They're high fibre cubes with added oil so they are ideal for horses in regular work as the energy is released slowly. They have all the vits and minerals a horse needs so you don't need to feed anything else to them.
They're non heating making them ideal for excitable horses!
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Hope you sort it out soon, it's a minefield out there!
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samstar - aren't pony cubes just mix but in a different form?


[/ QUOTE ] Most cubes are lower in starch and cereals than the equivalent mix, and therefore less likely to make a horse fizzy. However, if a horse reacts even to the low levels of cereals in horse and pony cubes, then look at something like High Fibre Cubes instead. If High Fibre Cubes don't supply enough calories for your horse to maintain weight then the Spiller's Slow Release Cubes suggested by a previous poster would be a good option.
 
sounds the same as my boy, fatty in summer and lost weight last winter.

I was recommended Spillers Response slow release cubes. you should get all the vits & mins needed and energy for work but no fizz!

that's that I'm going to try this winter.
 
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Bailey's lo-cal may be worth a try
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I second this. My four very different horses are all fed this as part of their daily diet all year round and all do very well on it.
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