Feeding an excitable TB

[LauraElise]

I have a 17hh old fashioned hunter type TB on loan. Have just found out that he will be on relatively poor grazing this winter and I am worried he will drop weight.

His owner had him on barley, sugarbeet and pasture mix last year. He was started on this end Sept. Surely he would be better on some sort of conditioning cube, non heating? He is also fed haylage whilst he is in on a night. Can anyone recommend a non heating conditioning feed?

I am not very experienced with feeding and want to get it right. Should say he is hacked 3 times a week and schooled 3 times for about 45 minutes. Thank you for your help

 

[the watcher]

I would stick with the regime that appears to suit him, you can always tweek it by adding an oil, rice bran or copra product if you think more is needed into the winter

 

[LauraElise]

mother_hen thank you. Sorry for my ignorance but what is a copra product?

 

[the watcher]

several types no doubt, but Coolstance is one, click here for linkie

 

[LauraElise]

Thank you very much

 

[Lolo]

Alpha Beet is a godsend with my poor-doer TB who gets buzzed off pretty much anything. Also, huge amounts of chaff! Um, maybe look at Simple Systems- some people swear by it...

 

[vicky_sut]

I would prob try him on what his owner had him on. I have my tb on allen and page ride and relax. They also do a calm and condition mix that is non heating and I know a few people that have had good results with it.

 

[jazzyjeff11]

try Saracen Horse Feeds - really helpful and have a big range of feeds - my horse is a bit wizzy and silly -they sorted him out and he now has good condition over the winter and I dont end up in ditches!!

 

[_April_]

My TB lost a lot of condition last year when we relocated from London to Scotland.
The best advice I was given was to feed copious amounts of haylage.

If it was me I would just keep him on what he is used to and see how it goes.

In case you need it for the future, I have some useful info from TGM on this forum which I made into a spreadsheet - geekery at its best

Starch often causes fizz.
Therefore for my TB - Baileys No4 made her too fizzy but I had great results with Spillers slow release energy cubes. The difference, which I am parroting from TGM are the starch levels - which are low at 12% in the spillers.

I also used Alpha A Oil with great success - it contains 12.5 MJ/kg which is much higher than normal Hi-Fi chaff (8 MJ/kg)

 

[kellyeaton]

allen page calm and condition!