Feeding a youngster..advice

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I have a 3 and a half year old coloured sport horse type gelding who is 16-16.2hh approx. He looks in good condition etc but is currently a field ornament til next spring so is chilling and being a baby horse :)
Anyhow, all he has at the moment is grass and will start feeding hay too. Last winter he had a balancer with chaff and grass nuts/sugar beet...very small amount.
He has had a fair growth spurt over the summer and just keeps growing...I want to get his vits/minerals into him etc without sending his brain into orbit as he is a bit sharp anyway.
Suggestions pretty please?? :)
 
SatansLittleHelper said:
I have a 3 and a half year old coloured sport horse type gelding who is 16-16.2hh approx. He looks in good condition etc but is currently a field ornament til next spring so is chilling and being a baby horse :)
Anyhow, all he has at the moment is grass and will start feeding hay too. Last winter he had a balancer with chaff and grass nuts/sugar beet...very small amount.
He has had a fair growth spurt over the summer and just keeps growing...I want to get his vits/minerals into him etc without sending his brain into orbit as he is a bit sharp anyway.
Suggestions pretty please?? :)
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I have recently started to use ultra grass, I'm really impressed with it. I feed it with a vit and mineral supplement (equimins) and speedie beet. After the age of 2 years, the nutritional requirements for youngsters are the same as for an adult horse, so you don't need to overdo the feeding, Ben struggled a bit with weight last winter but I think that the ultra grass will change that.
 
Fast Fibre is great for horses not doing a great deal but that need something extra. It's by Allen and Page and costs under £10 a bag and soaks in under 60 seconds- wish I'd discovered it earlier!
 
I have a pair of 3yos that sound very similar to yours - just chilling until spring! They have a handful of fast fibre with their vits + minerals in.
 
I have heard that the NAF optimum balancer has pretty much all the vitamins etc in. I would carry on feeding him the same but you could also give Fibre-Beet a try :)
 
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