Feeding advice please?? & colic??

[chole2020]

Hi All

Advice on feeding a shire x tb please

Loaners says chaff & pony nuts

Owners say sugarbeet/mix/chaff

I say same as the owner he does need weight putting on im wary of feeding too much sigarbeet as had a nightmare pony once & his behaviour was terriable everyone said it was because of the s/b even though i feed my other same amount just dont want him to get very fizzy

Ne horse is prone to get colic every now & then changing his feed completely will flar this up wouldnt it? hes not had it in 3 yrs & should i limit grass?

thanks

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

How old is the horse? What work is he doing? What is his current routine, living in/out? Is he being fed at present and if so what is he getting?

Personally I've cut all the sugar out of my ponies diets and they just get unmolassed chaff and micronised linseed. They all live out 24/7.

 

[windand rain]

presuming you have control over his feeding I would get him slowly onto a high fibre low sugar low starch diet. If he needs more weight then increase his calories by adding oil. With a colic risk I would do it very very slowly with one feed at a time being introduced while reducing the nuts chaff or mix he has at the moment. So I would very carefully monitor how each new feed and each dropped feed affected him. It is really up to the person in charge of feeding him though to make those decisions and it wont work if different people have different views
so I would wean him off his feed onto good quality hay for a month then slowly reintroduce a feed of Alfalfa chaff damped down with water or alfa beet well soaked when I understood his reaction to that I would then introduce a sugar free feed like grass nuts or calm and condition by Allen and Paige to the chaff and see how that worked for him then I would slowly introduce micronised linseed to add the oil and give him greater weight gain and a shiny coat, Start with small amounts building it up slowly to a decent feed and always feed alongside good quality hay or haylage if he can tolerate it

 

[JoClark]

Id say balancer with low starch and sugars (saracen essential), equijewel is good for weight and low starch/sugars, oil is in both of there. Maybe alfa pellets, dengie/saracen whoever really and ad lib hay.