Feeding for condition

[spotty_pony]

What does everyone recommend? My Appy potentially has PSSM (polysaccharide storage myopathy) which means he overproduces glycogen which is then stored in the muscles and affects nerves. This basically means I can't feed him any feed high in sugar, anything containing molasses, no mixes, etc. The suggested diet is high fibre and oil diet. So basically my questions are...

Do any of you feed Calm and Condition? Do any of you feed Baileys Outshine?
Do anyone of you feed both?
Do you feed something else which is low sugar/high fat for condition?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Orson Cart]

I feed micronised linseed, brewers yeast and a dollop of salt - all mixed in with a tiny token of speedi/kwik-beet. HTH. I don't trust pre-mixed feeds and prefer to make my own up. it can be surprising just how much sugar feed companies can hide in their feed. xx

 

[cloppy]

im feeding calm and condition with fibre beet and alfa a oil at the moment to one who has been away and come home having lost weight. It seems to be working and his coat is lovely. I also add some sunflower oil.

 

[Kat]

Mine doesn't have pssm but is a barefoot poor doer, she has alpha a mollasses free, speedibeet, oats, salt, micronised linseed and forage plus.

 

[Fuzzypuff]

Particularly for a PSSM horse I would want to aim for under 10% starch and sugar combined. C&C is 18% and I wouldn't feed it. It doesn't say how much sugar and starch Baileys Outshine has.

I'd be looking at things like unmolassed beet, micronised linseed, alfa a oil, unmolassed alfa a, readigrass, copra. And then a good vit/min supplement or balancer.

 

[JillA]

Particularly for a PSSM horse I would want to aim for under 10% starch and sugar combined. C&C is 18% and I wouldn't feed it. It doesn't say how much sugar and starch Baileys Outshine has.

I'd be looking at things like unmolassed beet, micronised linseed, alfa a oil, unmolassed alfa a, readigrass, copra. And then a good vit/min supplement or balancer.

I have two who really struggle, one of whom is IR so can't have sugar/starch/cereals. I use unmollassed beet pulp, grass pellets, micronized linseed and Rowan Barbary's Sumo which has all the protein the others are lacking, to build muscle, soft tissue and a good immune system. Some of RB's other products are suitable too http://rowenbarbary.co.uk/horse_feed_products/conditioning/36

 

[JoClark]

Look at saracen equijewel! alfa pellets and alfa a oil

 

[PolarSkye]

Dodson & Horrell ERS Pellets are specifically for horses prone to tying up . . . no starch, no cereals, no sugar . . . and they are conditioning. I add micronised linseed and a molasses free chaff to them in the summer - and top up with Copra (Coolstance) - which is also free from starch, cereals and sugar - which is unbelievably conditioning - a little goes a very long way .

Best of luck.

P

P.S. There's lots of oil in the ERS Pellets and the linseed, obviously, but the Copra is made from coconut and is packed with it . . . good for joints too

 

[Busybusybusy]

I wouldn't touch baileys as it has wheat feed in it (from what I can remember it is one of the top incredients). micronised linseed, cool stance copra, and equijewel are all great feeds. I feed my boy who is barefoot, copra, linseed, hay or straw chaff, pro hoof, magnesium and salt, split into 3 feeds a day and am just about to add in equijewel to help maintain his weight over winter these are all high fibre/low sugar & starch and no cereals, he's a big rangy TB with hollow legs!! & I struggle to keep weight on him. He also gets ad lib hay & is currently out 24/7

 

[Busybusybusy]

DandH list these as the ingredients in ERS pellets - Wheatfeed, Oatfeed, Alfalfa, Unmolassed Sugar Beet, Distiller's Wheat Grains, Vegetable Oil, Dehulled Soya Bean Meal, Fructose, Full Fat Linseed, Full Fat Soya, Limestone Flour, Salt (1.0%), Skimmed Milk Powder, Vitamin/Trace Mineral Premix, Calcium Gluconate, Blackcurrant, Kale, Spinach, Beetroot, Rosemary, Rosehip, Pomegranate (0.1%), Sodium Bicarbonate

So there are cereals, sugars, etc, so if your horse can't have cereals of any kind I wouldn't feed them! The best thing is to feed straights rather than any compound feeds so that you know what is in them.

You could also add oil to the feed, but it needs to be cold pressed rather than chemically refined (as these are pro flamatory - most cheap supermarket oils are not cold pressed).