Feeding hi-fi light as a hay replacer

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Okay, mare is under-weight, poor doer, she has ad lib hay through the night (good fine quality) - she goes out at 9am and is in by 4pm. She will not stay in the stable so has to go out - there is little grass so hay is fed between her and the other girls. She has her breakfast - 1.5 scoops speedi beat, 1.5 scoops barley rings, handful hi-fi light plus carrots - she has the same for her tea.
I stupidly her been giving her a huge bucket of alfa-a (fed ad lib) through the night for the past 3 days as well as ad lib hay, the alfa a has (not surprisingly) sent her through the roof and is completley un-workable and a tad dangerous so thats being scrapped!
Can anyone tell me if the hifi light fed adlib will be non-heating?? (i believe it is good for weight gain).
Any suggestions on how i can feed her up without added energy?
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Hi Fi Lite can be fed as a partial hay replacer, and shouldn't hot her up. However, it won't really help with weight gain.

I've used Graze On (a dried grass), which helped a little and didn't send mine loopy. Hi Fi Senior worked well (til she got bored of it lol).

Now feeding Graze On, with Winergy Equilibrium Conditioning, and a mug of oil. Getting some great results with this, and horse doesn't seem to have gone mad on it (but she is having a short break while I get her saddle sorted).
 
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Hi Fi Lite can be fed as a partial hay replacer, and shouldn't hot her up. However, it won't really help with weight gain.

[/ QUOTE ] Ditto this - Hi Fi Lite is a low calorie chaff, so will not be so effective with weight gain as a higher calorie chaff would be. A grass based chaff would be a better choice for her.

Has she been on the barley for long, as that can also heat some horses up.
 
Winergy Equilibrium is great stuff - whether it's Low Enery as mentioned by someone in your other thread or Condition as mentioned in this one. It's mainly fibre & oil so won't heat your horse up and the Condition really does what it claims. However, it's not cheap and you probably won't want to feed it in huge amounts as a hay replacer. Sorry I'm not much use in giving positive advice but seeing as Winery Equilibrium has been mentioned in both your threads I just thought I'd add that!
 
Dodson and horrell do a grass chaff.

TBH im amazed the alfalfa has made her silly and the barley rings havnt, the starch difference is huge! Unless its got something to do with the mollasses on the alfalfa. You can get unmollassed alfalfa pellets from dengie, which you could soak and leave in a bucket. They say you dont need to soak them but i would never feed them dry as they swell up a lot.

Basically look for as high energy feeds as possible (DE- mj/kg), with as low starch as possible. e.g high fibre, high oil, low or no cereals. this will help with weight gain whilst minimising excitability.
 
Must be me on the Winergy low Energy thread as all my four horses are on it and I swear by it. 2 TBs 1 Welsh Sec D 3 year old and, 15hh Irish X ? in poor state when I bought him in November and the 3 year old looked like a 22yr old when I bought him last May. They are all doing really well on it and put the weight on without getting hot! I have increased their feed at night with a scoop of Apple chaff as they started to leave some of their hay, so cut down on their hay and everything is eaten and feed troughs licked clean. And they still look good. Yes if you look at it being expensive per bag, work out how much you spend on each item of feed you buy per week. I did and this works out cheaper per week, I also found cann't feed mine sugarbeet as 1) it gave them the shits
2) Made them hyper
 
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