Feeding oil to horses

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Ive been reading a lot of articles regarding feeding oil to horses. Corn oil, rapeseed, basic vegetable oils from supermarkets. Who feeds oil to their horses and for what reasons?
Does anyone add oil to Ease and Excel 24?

 

[paddi22]

we got a nutritionist guy in to review our feeding regime and the recommended Tesco vegetable oil (which is rapeseed) as the cheapest good option. I can get 3 litres for 3.50. euro we started feeding it and the horses look shiny and great. I'd been feeding more expensive oils before, but they look at good on the cheap Tesco stuff.

 

[ycbm]

I used to feed Tesco vegetable oil, which is rapeseed. I don't have a horse that needs it at the moment.

Spiller's advice, unbiased obviously as there is nothing in it for them, is that supermarket oil is fine, but they do recommend adding vitamin E as an anti oxidant.
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[paddi22]

thats interesting about the vitamin E. it was something I was going to look into. anywhere you recommend to get it. we have a good few horses here so the small supplement tubs aren't great, a bulk buy one would be amazing.

 

[HobleytheTB]

I give linseed oil to my ppid mare as a safe way of putting weight on her. The only type of oil I've read some negatives about is corn oil, as the omega 3 to 6 ratio gives it some inflammatory properties.

If you're feeding a high oil diet I think you do need to supplement with vitamin E. You just need to check what you're already giving in existing feeds/ supplements etc!

 

[ycbm]

thats interesting about the vitamin E. it was something I was going to look into. anywhere you recommend to get it. we have a good few horses here so the small supplement tubs aren't great, a bulk buy one would be amazing.

AFAIK, nobody sells vitamin E in bulk because it's so expensive.

The main thing to watch for is synthetic vs natural. Natural is twice as absorbed by the horse as synthetic. So although synthetic is usually only half the price, you would only have to feed half the amount of natural and they work out the same cost. If you're feeding a lot you can't use the cheapest ones with selenium in, because you can o.d. the selenium and that's very bad news.
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[tristar]

i used sunflower oil or linseed oil, now micron linseed