Healthy but tasty chaff or other base feed for fussy good doers

The Releve looks like a good shout. I wonder if I can get some without committing to a whole bag. The local feed shop does not sell Saracen products (Gypsum was on Equi-Jewel for a while) so no one at my yard has it.
 
Caol Ila said:
The Releve looks like a good shout. I wonder if I can get some without committing to a whole bag. The local feed shop does not sell Saracen products (Gypsum was on Equi-Jewel for a while) so no one at my yard has it.
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Email them they'll probably send a sample
 
Mine are fatties so I've been on the same path trying to find something to hide supplements in. What's worked for them both is Top Chop Zero, one loves it and will hoover up anything in it, the other is not so keen which actually suits me as he can pick at it throughout the day. I'll use dried mint which has worked well to get them to eat things like antibiotics although I've never found anything that will persuade the cob to eat a feed with salt in.

Happy to send you some if you would like to try it.
 
Also very happy to send you a scoop or two of A&P Veteran Light if you want to try it. @chaps89 did the same for me when I was thinking of switching.

I make mine extra sloppy with just 2x 100ml scoops of dry pellets, it's just to hide the apparent foulness that is Forageplus's hoof&skin vits and minerals.
 
I also suggest Saracen Releve to hide supplements in. My old boy also used to really like Pure Feeds Meadow Mash. Dried mint and fenugreek can also be used as an appetiser.
 
Another vote for Agrobs muesli.

I haven't known any to turn down the Agrobs weisencobs or weisenflakes either (grass nuts). They are obviously v tasty! I use them as a base for supplements, and add linseed.
 
Neither of my horses were fans of Weisencobs. I'll see how te Re-Leve mix goes. It isn't the healithiest thing in the world but she really is getting just a token amount of it.
 
I don’t want to be that person but just in case you didn’t know. The mix needs to be fed like slop, some horses have choked
 
Yeah, I have read that. I keep looking at the Pure Feeds website but my luck with chaff type feeds has been about zero. A fellow livery let me try Top Chop 0 and the Dengie Meadow Grass. Nope.

I have read on here that some people's horses get a bit nuts on the Saracen. I hope she doesn't!
 
My horse is the same with chaff type foods, even if it molassed up to the eyeballs, he won't eat it if has a supplement powder added to it.
 
Getting to the last dregs of my bag of Re-Leve. She is more ambivalent about it than would be ideal, so I wouldn't mind trying something else (Fin, on the other hand, thinks the stuff is like crack).

Looking for a healthy-ish mix. I'm only giving a token amount, to mix with some boring Dengie Pure Grass chaff and hide those supplements. I'm looking at various brands online.

If you give this horse a choice between a hard feed and hay, she scoffs the hay. She is so weird.
 
I've had to move from Pure Easy to Simple Systems Purabeet to Thunderbrook Meadow nuts. He ate the Simple System Purabeet in the winter but not once Spring grass started to come through.

So far, the soaked Meadow Nuts have been a real hit. They do a sample size pack too.

(Although I appreciate they are Thunderbrook ...)
 
All mine are pigs but my friend works her way through the low starch mashes around the feed store. Allen & Page currently - just a tiny amount
 
We've had success with grass nuts with beetroot powder added, with Agrobs muesli and/or mash, and in extremis, a glug of molasses in an otherwise 'healthy' feed (when I was first persuading the fussy fussy pony...)
 
Caol Ila said:
Getting to the last dregs of my bag of Re-Leve. She is more ambivalent about it than would be ideal, so I wouldn't mind trying something else (Fin, on the other hand, thinks the stuff is like crack).

Looking for a healthy-ish mix. I'm only giving a token amount, to mix with some boring Dengie Pure Grass chaff and hide those supplements. I'm looking at various brands online.

If you give this horse a choice between a hard feed and hay, she scoffs the hay. She is so weird.
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Try cutting the Pro balance down just put in a small amount then slowly increase mine go off it especially now when grass through.

I feed mine with emerald grass and unmolassed sugar beet I just sprinkle a few high fibre nuts in the sugar beet ration let them soak in for a bit then make feeds, so far they are eating it sometimes I never manage to get the full dose of balancer in them.
 
Caol Ila said:
Getting to the last dregs of my bag of Re-Leve. She is more ambivalent about it than would be ideal, so I wouldn't mind trying something else (Fin, on the other hand, thinks the stuff is like crack).

Looking for a healthy-ish mix. I'm only giving a token amount, to mix with some boring Dengie Pure Grass chaff and hide those supplements. I'm looking at various brands online.

If you give this horse a choice between a hard feed and hay, she scoffs the hay. She is so weird.
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My Arabi has always done this as well.
 
I’ve not known a horse turn down baileys fibre nuggets. You can feed dry or soaked. I use them as treats too. Even a fair few dogs like them I’ve had a some random dogs on the beach come over looking for treats.

Also Pure feeds meadow mash was loved by my oldie if you can still get it.
 
Agrobs mash made up with warm water to increase the smell is apparently irresistible 🙂
 
@Caol Ila may i ask what feed you are currently having success with, im running out of samples for mine and she wont touch pretty much anything as soon as i put a tiny amount of PE balancer in it 😣
 
She is currently eating Bailey's fibre nuggets. She would finish about half her feed, which was better than nothing. It was the best we could do. Or so I thought.

A few weeks ago, I accidentally put some of my other horse's Ekygard into her feed, at which point she gobbled it up like crack.

The Ekygard is f*ckin expensive, so I'm trying to figure out what's in it that she likes so much and if there is a cheaper way to get it.
 
Caol Ila said:
She is currently eating Bailey's fibre nuggets. She would finish about half her feed, which was better than nothing. It was the best we could do. Or so I thought.

A few weeks ago, I accidentally put some of my other horse's Ekygard into her feed, at which point she gobbled it up like crack.

The Ekygard is f*ckin expensive, so I'm trying to figure out what's in it that she likes so much and if there is a cheaper way to get it.
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Well according to their website it does contain molasses, stevia (which is another sweetener) and dried apple pulp, so could just be appealing to her sweet tooth.

But it does also contain fenugreek which is meant to be an appetite stimulant.
 
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