Feeding my Yearing

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angel1c

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Hello,

can anyone help me with some advice for feeding my yearling, she is a sports horse to make approx 16.2hh, currently around 14.2hh.

She wintered out very well, but has dropped some weight and condition in the spring due to poor grazing, she has ad lib hay which is good quality and there is always a supply in the field.

She is not massivly underweight but as i want to show her over the summer and take her to the futurity classes i would like a bit more weight and condition on her. She had lice a few months back and her coat has suffered from it.

At the mo she is fed a mainly fibre diet, just chaff and fibre feed.

Please any advice very welcome as i don't to be feeding her anything that is going to make her over excited.

Also does anyone know if Baileys outshine is suitable for a yearling??

Thanx.
 

I feed my yearling Dodson & Horrell's suregrow & she looks fab on it. It is specially balanced for babies to make sure they get the right nutrients but not too much of them.
Might be worth adding some in to her chaff?

I would be very wary of feeding something like outshine or any other conditioning/weight gain feed as there is a danger they can develop bone disorders if they are fed too richly.
 
Thank you for your reply... i will give that a try... there is so much stuff on the market these days that i can't be sure what is best and she doesn't have the biggest appetite in the world so can make it a bit hard when feed companies suggest giving her more and more of the same, she just won't eat large quantities even if the are spread over 3 meals.
 
I feed both my yearlings baileys stud cubes and they have half a cup of baileys outshine a day. I first checked this with a baileys nutritionist and she said it would be fine. She also said that if their droppings became excessively loose to stop feeding it. They are fine on it though and their coats are to die for....
 
Also forgot to add, they were on suregrow before and looked much better when fed just baileys stud cubes than on the suregrow. It is also cheaper. I had inside information from a general nutritionist and he suggested the baileys stud cubes were better than suregrow. I also saw this with my own eyes!
 
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Also forgot to add, they were on suregrow before and looked much better when fed just baileys stud cubes than on the suregrow. It is also cheaper. I had inside information from a general nutritionist and he suggested the baileys stud cubes were better than suregrow. I also saw this with my own eyes!

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On what basis did the nutritionist say this? Just out of interest & who was it - PM me if you prefer. Not saying he/she is wrong by any means but I am interested in the rationale.
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what about spillers young stock mix!

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We have used this for 6 months now, and are about to change to Baileys S Cubes. May well not be the feed, but as we've given it a while will now see if he improves on something else. So hard to gauge though and with OPs post the spring grass may well be enough to pop on that bit more weight. Def dont start going down the Outshine etc route, its too much for a baby.
 
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Also forgot to add, they were on suregrow before and looked much better when fed just baileys stud cubes than on the suregrow. It is also cheaper. I had inside information from a general nutritionist and he suggested the baileys stud cubes were better than suregrow. I also saw this with my own eyes!

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On what basis did the nutritionist say this? Just out of interest & who was it - PM me if you prefer. Not saying he/she is wrong by any means but I am interested in the rationale.
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Indeed - I would be too, except I will push my neck out and say the nutritionist is incorrect on this one!
 
Hi,

Mine eat suregrow and look lovely on it and have all winter. They also get a bit of alpha a.
I think its brill stuff!
 
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