Fibre based diet?

[wonkey_donkey]

It's the best diet you can feed.
My lot are fed the same namely a donkey, a yearling, an oldie, an in-foal mare and a WB in fittening work!
I make up a huge tub-trug with good grass nuts, sugar beet, corn oil and salt and soak it well in water overnight. Then they get it dished out at the amounts suitable for their needs with Alfa Oil, Benevit vit/mins and carrots added to the 'mush'.
They all look great on it and have a huge breakfast and tea to munch through which keep's them very happy and doesn't blow their brains!
If any are competing in summer I substitute the grass nuts for Copra Meal for the extra protein (but still very low in starch) cos again it still makes up the big tub of 'mush'.
It's dead cheap, quick to prepare and my horses are eating like horses should.

 

[CBFan]

I haven't fed mix for years! fibre only all the way! Mine's fit and thriving!

 

[Seahorse]

Why didn't I do this years ago lol!!!

So, if I give him 2.5kgs of Alfa A a day with speedibeet and a few conditioning cubes sprinkled on top? I see a lot of you give a balancer too, but would a general vits and mins supplement be ok?
He certainly doesn't need any more energy, but could do with putting on a bit of weight.

Thank you for all your feedback, I really appreciate it

 

[LadyRascasse]

if he gets bored you can try fast fibre it has mint and garlic in it, my horses love it i have never had such clean bowls lmao.

 

[scotsmare]

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Why didn't I do this years ago lol!!!

So, if I give him 2.5kgs of Alfa A a day with speedibeet and a few conditioning cubes sprinkled on top? I see a lot of you give a balancer too, but would a general vits and mins supplement be ok?
He certainly doesn't need any more energy, but could do with putting on a bit of weight.

Thank you for all your feedback, I really appreciate it

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Funnily enough, a leaflet from Dengie fell out of a magazine I picked up today - they recommend Alfa A, Sugar Beet and a general vit/min supplement. Try it and see how he goes, I only feed balancers cos they have other 'issues' (ie. one is growing and two of them have feet problems). I'm sure a broad spec vit/min supplement will be fine.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

My girl lives off high fibre due to her previous bout of lammi.
She has happy hoof along with high fibre nuts, then its just her supplements on top of that

 

[spaniel]

Yep a good quality vit and min supplement will be ideal.

 

[sarahhelen1977]

Reading the Dengie bags - Alfa -A is equivalent to feeding a cool mix and Alfa-A oil is equivalent to feeding conditioning mix - so if you need more weight on your horse or a bit more energy then go for the oil, otherwise stick with the original

Mine are all on Alfa-A, carrots and garlic, the stallion gets Blue Chip too. They all look great. I haven't fed any mixes to my horses for years.

 

[Seahorse]

I know! I can't believe I've been feeding him a scoop of Alfa A Oil AND a scoop of mix twice a day! No wonder he's a bit lively lol!
I have recently changed him to conditioning cubes and he only needs 1/2 a scoop twice a day of these as they weigh more but what I'll do is up the Alfa A and gradually cut out the cubes.
Hopefully the feed merchant will let me take my unopened bag of cubes back and swap it for something else.

 

[Ranyhyn]

My horse only gets alfa a oil and a feed balancer. He's a good doer and so far is looking good on it.

 

[HelsB]

I haven't fed cereals or mixes for years, I feel Simple System feeds along with cheaper unbranded unmollassed Sugar beet. For extra oomph I feed Instant Linseed.

I am managing to feed 2 very different characters - a lazy cob who needs more oomph but less fat, and an excitable TB on the same types of feed, just more or less of them plus ad lib hay