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Do any of you who feed oil just feed the normal human Vegetable Oil? Or something else? I'm going to start adding oil to my horse's feed soon and was wondering if Vegetable Oil would be ok, or would something else work better? It's for maintaining condition.
 
Tablespoon of regular vegetable oil with each feed. Generally oil it to help energy levels, not sure on the conditioning effects of adding oil.

Dengie do a chaff with oil, have used that successfully in the past for both energy levels and maintaining a good weight when horse was in hard competition type work though.
 
My vet recommended corn oil. I always added a good tablespoon to each feed. It used to give my boy a bit of a spark. It is good for joints. Be aware if you feed too much it's "eye of the needle" time !!!! ;)

Oh yeah....shiny coat too!
 
I feed coconut oil and use it as a hoof/ mane and tail dressing. We buy a big tub and go through it pretty quickly. I think it particularly helps my retirees. And my disgusting stable chores hands!
 
I have to be very careful what I feed my boy as he can't have anything with too much sugar in it - so any kind of mix is out, etc! Oil is slow-release energy and also a proven weight gain supplement. I'm just toying with ideas of which sort - I was thinking maybe Vegetable Oil or Linseed Oil, not sure whether Corn Oil would be too much sugar for him. He doesn't need more energy, just to maintain condition.
 
I used to add a dollop of veg oil to the old herd's (youngstock, broodmare, cob) feed years ago. Lived out unrugged 24/7 and all had a lovely gleam to there coat and kept condition. As to whether the oil actually contributed I have no idea, but they were just on bog standard sugarbeet and mollichop and adlib hay....
 
We feed vegetable or sunflower oil and gives a lovely shiny coat and when one of the wee ones doesn't have it he starts to suffer with his locking stifle, when he's on oil he has no issues.
 
I feed vegetable oil. I buy a big 15 litre drum from Costco for about £12 and it lasts all winter. I pour it into a smaller bottle with a funnel is it's very difficult to handle the big one!
 
spotty_pony said:
I have to be very careful what I feed my boy as he can't have anything with too much sugar in it - so any kind of mix is out, etc! Oil is slow-release energy and also a proven weight gain supplement. I'm just toying with ideas of which sort - I was thinking maybe Vegetable Oil or Linseed Oil, not sure whether Corn Oil would be too much sugar for him. He doesn't need more energy, just to maintain condition.
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There's no sugar in any type of pure oil so you don't need to worry about that, I've fed ordinary supermarket vegetable oil in the past, but just feed ground linseed now as its very high in oil, containing lots of good omega 3s, and puts condition on very well.
 
I feed sunflower & corn oil to our old 36 year old Welsh Sec. B mare to help her keep her weight on.
I'm also going to buy some Soya Oil for my 8 year old eventer / hunter mare.
 
I've fed supermarket vegetable oil (rapeseed oil) to my horse when he has been living out in the winter. He now has linseed oil but only because someone gave me a big can of it. He doesn't need it at the moment and I will probably not feed it at all this winter unless he begins to drop condition quickly.

He is a good doer and too much oil makes him a tad too lively to ride in my opinion - he's quite "busy" anyway and I'm too old to want too much excitement ;)
 
Vet recommended veg oil to me for my 36 yr old. He has 120 ml a day, split into two 60 ml doses in the morning and evening feed so as not to give him the squits by feeding too much at once.
 
I use normal vegetable oil and can notice the difference, gives the coat a beautiful shine and my older one doesn't seem as stiff once he's had a couple of feeds with it in.
 
spotty_pony said:
Do any of you who feed oil just feed the normal human Vegetable Oil? Or something else? I'm going to start adding oil to my horse's feed soon and was wondering if Vegetable Oil would be ok, or would something else work better? It's for maintaining condition.
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I used to for years only changed due to one equine needing soya oil. Would use again if I needed to.
 
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