Feeding help please?

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heebiejeebies

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Over the summer my horse has been living out on adlib grass, and hay when he is standing in. Now he is stabled during the night for the winter I'm looking at introducing bucket feeds again.

He is quite excitable and squitty, can't have haylage and needs his hay soaked to get the sugars out. He also gets quite stressy being boxed which doesn't help either.

We do light schooling and are working on hacking - (he has had a couple of bad experiences and now naps when it comes to leaving the yard) and next year I would like to show him in hand and ridden. He is an arab gelding, vet says weight is spot on.

I was looking at this feed, it's saying there is 4% oil, 10% protein, 25% fibre, 10% starch. So that's roughly 50% of the feed listed, what is the other 50% or am I being thick?!

http://www.efeed.co.uk/products/horse-feed/mix/sugar---cereal-intolerance

Am I right in thinking this sort of mix would be a good idea as it's designed for intolerances and may help the squitting? I could also add something like pink powder or protexin to the feed too?

Thanks so much if anyone can give me some advice!
 
Have you thought about putting him on a calmer to help him?? if so i would recommend Equistro equilizer which my vet recommended to me, its about £26 free delivery from animed, maybe worth a try and i agree with above post also soaked alfa beet is good with corn oil to help to put weight on if needed xx
 
Thanks for your reply!

I'm not sure if I'm right in saying he is stressy... all summer he has done solid poos but the minute he has come in at night the squitting started and his backend is filthy. I'm just linking the two, but don't want to blame it on stress if it could be something else? He always wants to come in, he comes galloping up the field when I call, doesn't box walk or crib etc and seems very at peace to be bedded down for the night. Is he adjusting to the change in the grass or going from adlib grass to soaked hay?

What would the speedi beet do, provide extra energy?
 
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