Help on feed.. 2 year old thoroughbred

[Carmenleeann]

Hi... Please can someone give me some advice.. I have a 2 year old tb. She had been wintered out n has lost a lot of weight.. Currently feeding calm and condition happy hoove and topline with linseed oil.. Can see her rids n hip bones too.. She's really loose too.
I've just bought a bag of high fibre horse n pony cubes as she can get abit hot headed.

 

[JillA]

Good forage, good forage, oh, and good forage! Good quality hay or haylage should have most of whet she needs.
That comprises most of what she gets at this time of year, so anything else is a relatively small percentage, and has a correspondingly small percentage effect on her condition. That said, for a growing youngster you do need to ensure she gets plenty of protein and mineral to ensure decent growth, so check the components on the feed bags. Try and not get her hooked on cereal based feeds if you can - when she gets older you will reap the benefits if she is used to unmollassed beet and grass nuts, plus micronized linseed, and that, plus a good balancer for youngstock, will do her fine. Sugars will make her fizzy, so avoid anything with molasses or cereals (= starch = sugars)

 

[HorsesandParrots]

calm and condition is the best!! I'd continue with that, lots of good forage (adlib hay/haylage) and add a balancer and alfa A oil in her feed as it also contains anti oxidants.

I'd add blue chip original, but its expensive. it did quickly put weight on my rescue mare, and added topline rather than just 'fat'. It lasts a long time so doesn't work out too bad... but of you don't wanna fork out on blue chip then add another feed balancer

Oils are a good, cheap, high in calorie addition. Just plain veg oil orrapeseed oil is sufficient to add if she still needs to gain weight

 

[twiggy2]

good quality hay, as much as she can eat available ALL the time, make sure she is warm but not hot too, is she settled with the way ashe is kept or is there something that stresses her out?

 

[Queenbee]

Echo the emphasis on fibre/forage. Im personally not a fan of C&C but some see fab results with it. If she is scouring, dont give haylage, only hay and invest in a good probiotic, protexin is what i would always reccomend

 

[ellie11987]

good quality hay, as much as she can eat available ALL the time, make sure she is warm but not hot too, is she settled with the way ashe is kept or is there something that stresses her out?

Good forage, good forage, oh, and good forage! Good quality hay or haylage should have most of whet she needs.

Echo this - most important thing!

For feed - 3 small meals a day consitsing of speedibeet, micronised linseed and whole soaked oats plus a forage balancer or min/vit supp.

On this diet mine looked like this fully clipped in the middle of winter when she is normally a hat rack at that stage: