Feeding for Energy NOT calories

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Currently on Low cal balancer and nothing else but im looking to feed some extra energy as shes lacking any oopmh at all!

What i dont want is any additional calories as im currently loosing her weight and i dont want anything that will put it on.

Ideas please?
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barley is high in energy but fattening

what about an oat mix or comp mix?

i have been recommended corn before, as my cob needs no extra weight!!
 
can anyone give me oat mixes?

Ive never ever shopped for this sort of thing before so i dont know what sort of products im looking at?
 
You get a fizzy horse because they have a glycaemic response to the starch in the grains. Most high energy feeds are high starch. It is like giving a kid a load of sugary sweets. Oil won't do this because there is no starch and the metabolic pathway is different. It won't put weight on because it is like being on atkins! I'd get some soya oil and gulg that in. It is cheaper than buying feeds you might not get on with and it'll give her a nice glossy coat if nothing else!
 
Oil or plain rolled oats - oats do not always cause the reaction you would expect them to, honestly! My pony is fed nothing but oats and she's not fizzy. Soya or veg oil would do, or an oil-sprayed chaff if you want a bulk feed.
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Because it is a different digestion pathway it takes a while for their body to adjust and start using it as an energy source.I guess a week/ten days? You can feed a lot of oil with no ill effects so just build up slowly until she has the oomph you want.
 
Not sure I agree with feeding high quantities of oil if she doesnt want to have her horse increase weight? I am trying to get weight ON my horse just now and the vet and feed companies have all recommended high oil content feeds to do that.
And if fed in high quantities the horse will need to be given extra vitamins to help its body process the oil.

On a slightly different note, I spent £34 on a bag of Outshine for my boy yesterday because although normally an equine hoover, refused to eat his tea with oil in :-( £34!!!!
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In metabolic pathways excess carbohydrate inhibits fat burning. Cut out the carbohydrates and fed oil and the body will, in the absence of sugar from carbohydrates, burn the fat as fuel ( = Energy) That's how it works in humans anyway. Trouble is the horse eats loads of carbohydrates in grass and hay too so you have to watch out not to feed too much oil either.
Oil makes my horse very fat very quickly because I cannot stop him eating the grass at his normal preferred speed ( unless I put a grazing muzzle on him)
Basically the more calories in a food the more energy it provides.
If you want more energy you have to feed more calories - its getting the balance right that is so hard to do.
 
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Oil won't do this because there is no starch and the metabolic pathway is different. It won't put weight on because it is like being on atkins!

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How come vets tell you to put Soya in a horses feed that needs condition/weight?
 
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soya oil is different to corn or sunflower oil!

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is it? Very curious to know in what why it is different, surely oil is just basically fat.
I know that Palm nut oil is oil very high in saturated fats and olive oil is low in unsaturated fats, so palm oil found in cheap chocolate is very bad for humans - raises cholesterol,
but I am really interested to know how soya oil differs from corn or sunflower oil. - will check in supermarket tomorow and biology books as well.
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i think soya oils is more down the essitinal fatty acids like emeya 3 and 6 thats why it is conditioning sun flower and so on is more normal saturated fats!
 
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