Feeding Straights

[ladyaga]

Thrilled to find a feed store selling straights, flaked maize and crushed and micronized barley.
Please does anyone know roughly how much for a poor ID needs to fatten it up. 17-3 I have apple chaff, sugar beat quick soak, Also conditioning mix, from D and H. She is not ridden at the moment, and we are very short of grass, so hay is adlib.
In pounds and ounces, as I like it that way for my scales. Many thanks

 

[paddi22]

what kind of work is the id in?

What i found really useful was the bluegrass oat balancer. I did a ton of research here and with feed suppliers and it works out the best for my varied herd and it's very cheap. i get skinny rescues in every now and then, and i have ones in full work too so i was demented with about 20 bags of feed.. The blue grass oat balancer was great cause it has oil and biotin in it, so i could cut out two supplements. I add oats to bulk up any skinnies, and any good doers are on just the balancer , a few oats and beetpulp. For any that i really needed to bulk up i added their flax plus feed. Their reps was really helpful and did up a plan for each horse so that i wasn't over feeding and stuff. So far it has saved me a fortune on my feed bill, and i can just buy in big bags of oats for the bulk of it.

 

[be positive]

She needs several small high quality feeds each day, the apple chaff will be doing nothing other than to fill her up with poor quality molasses covered chop, so I would cut that out and replace with unmolassed alfalfa if she needs a chop and add some linseed to give her something that is high quality and high calorie that is in a small quantity so she gets less in the bucket, if you use straights you will need to add a decent supplement to balance the diet, keep each feed small to ensure she gets the most out of it, 2-3 pounds 5 times a day will be far better than 2 feeds of 6 pounds much of which will pass through without being fully utilised.

 

[tristar]

boiled barley and linseed mixed will fatten better than anything, you know the sort you cook yourself and end up with a sticky kitchen, however it far exceeds anything i have ever used and she is big, but i would expect to see a big difference in one month, fed three times a week at a decent dollop.

root veg suitably sliced is another thing often overlooked when it comes to conditioning, take advantage of lidl and aldi offers and get chopping, they have huge swedes today on offer, or get some from a farmer .