Feeding advice for an oldie please

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My retired 12.2 pony is now loosing her teeth which is obviously restricting her grass intake and so I need to start supplimenting her diet with more feed than I am used to. She has always been a bit of a fatty and I have to be careful about laminitis, she lives out 24/7/365 as she is a box walker. In the winter she gets a feed a day just to help maintain her weight.
If she was fit and in hard work then I would say at the moment she looks fantastic, however she isn't and I'm going to have a big struggle on my hands if she goes into winter like this.

Someone mentioned to me about Happy Hoof, or the Veteran Conditioning mix.
What I need is something that has laminitic's in mind but that is going to be soft and palatable, as the poor love could do with a set of dentures
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We fed our old 12hh pony for years, on a lovely mash of soaked feed that looked a bit like porridge. We used to soak high fibre and stud cubes for him, and feed that along with a bit of sugarbeet and some oil for extra fat. He got this twice a day.

I think on this diet he looked better in retirement (when we started feeding him it after advice from the vet) than he did when I was riding him! He never liked chaff stuff, or hay (even when he had teeth) but used to try and gum as much grass as he could I think. He used to scour very badly too when I was riding him, but on this he stopped doing that too.

He was out 24/7 all year, with a rug in winter. The rug through some of the winter months was barely taken off - thank god for horseware rugs - they are fab!! Althougb he was never prone to lami, being such a skinny little runt.

Our older boys now are old Old faithful which is allen and page I think, they seem to like that and I would think it would soak down fine.
 
Thanks for the input. I have been looking on all of the feed suppliers websites, but had forgotten Allen & Page in my search!
 
I use soaked build up cubes for mine as he can eat them more easily. I am sure there are loads of feeds available but i just find cubes are better for the toothless ones!!
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I also feed speedibeet and alfa-A although he does find the alfa hard going.

He is also enjoying readigrass as he also doesnt like hay much.

I think I am in a similar position to you as to whether or not I can take mine through the winter.
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Thanks, I know what you mean about the cubes, they at least break down once soaked.
The dentist is coming out again as she has a very loose one in front but the bugger won't come out! I think she'll find it easier once it has gone as I'd imagine it's quite uncomfortable at the moment.
This is the first year that I've really noticed her age
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it's quite upsetting, I've had her for 21 years, she was bought for my 4th birthday.
 
Dodson & Horrel do a lovely chaff called Safe & Sound, esp for laminitics. It has lots of natural suppliments so s good all round, I use it for both of mine even though only 1 is prone to laminitis and they both look great on it. If she has bother with it you could try soaking it.

Good luck
 
allen and page also do something called fast fibre which you soak.
we feed it to our oldie who loves the fact you can make it like porridge and he just slurps it up!
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having a ditzy moment....forgot to say we mix it with sugar and cereal intolerance mix (also by allen and page) for our lad who is lami prone
 
soak high fibre cubes and speedie beet for her fibre rotation then for all her other needs give her a mash called ready mash extra from the soak and soft range that is fanstactic food with a vit and min supplement already in it!
 
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