Feeding an immature rising 6y/o

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I have a 16.1 rising 6 y/o crossbreed (warmblood type) who is very immature in his frame still, looks more like a 4 y/o. He has been off work for the last 2 weeks due to a minor injury and has dropped a fair amount of muscle in that time although was not hugely well muscled to begin with, he now looks like a bit of a weed.

He is currently on 8kg of hay a night (grazing during day) 1 scoop alfa a original, 1 scoop pony nuts and 1 mug of linseed a day.

He has been signed off by my vet and McTimoney practitioner and can now begin getting back to work, which I will build slowly. Im aware this will greatly improve his muscle tone, but im also looking to add something to his feed just to give him a helping hand with building the muscle. It is impartant that whatever I feed is non heating. I have been looking into balancers and will probably be giving a couple of feed companies a call, but I was just looking for a non biased opinion in the mean time.

Many thanks.
 
When i have similar ones in i use Baileys endurance mix on them to build them up. its non heating and has outshine in it

Also had good results on equerry conditioning mash, d&h build and glow, and copra coolstance.
 
I would give unlimited hay so he never runs out, plus 2 or 3 small feeds a day, then instead of pony nuts use something lower in starch and sugar, grass nuts/ fast fibre with a decent supplement to get the vits and mins into him, keep going with the linseed and possibly give 1 mug in each feed.

A balancer could be used instead of the supplement but I would still drop the pony nuts.
 
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