Feeding milk pellets for weight gain?

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Years ago I had a crazy little pacer pony who was always skinny and a vet recommended we feed her milk pellets for weight gain. I now have a skinny tb (quite skinny, but teeth, worming etc all ok, just hasn't gained weight on what nutritionist advised) this got me thinking about milk pellets, they are super high in protein... 29% ... Has anyone tried them for weight gain, and did it work?
 
Never had much sucess with milk pellets. Try using full fat soya instead. You only need to add about 100g to each feed. Has worked wonders on my skinny TB, and his 30yr old mother.
 
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Oh interestingly had a quite well known nutritionist do a profile for me and he said try full fat soya too! Shall go down that road.
 
I am using them at mo for old pony they have certainly made a noticeable improvement to his condition in only 2 1/2 weeks.
They have not made him fizzy but he has a new enthusiasm for everything now.
I give them the thumbs up.
 
We used milk replacer for an emaciated TBx and the emaciated CB that we had bought, both on the vet's advice. I think it did make a difference but not as much as other things. Micronised linseed and pink powder along with as much vegetable oil as they could cope with (I can't remember the amounts we were told to use but something like a pint a day). Whatever you use be sure to introduce it gradually and sometimes we spend a fortune when lots of fibre based feed and added oil are the simplest and most effective way to put weight on. Simple grass nuts are amazing when fed in the required quantities and over several feeds a day!
 
I Have just started my older mare on micronised linseed from charnwood. I have tried just about everything over the years and things either didnt work or she wouldnt eat it. So far she is eating the linseed ok but it is too soon to tell if its gonna help with weight gain as only on day 4 and I am introducing it slowly as she can be very fussy.
 
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