Help with horse's diet.

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DellaMoon

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I have had Della for a month and about 2 weeks ago she started suffering from loose droppings. I changed her from haylage to hay and removed all the supplements from her diet. The vet checked her temperature and did a blood test and everything came back normal. She was wormed 5 weeks ago. Things started to settle down so I tried her on pink powder to help her digestion, it did the opposite and resulted in even looser droppings. So she now gets no supplements just ad lib hay and a high fibre diet (1 scoop Hi-Fi original, 1/2 scoop hi-fibre cubes twice a day). Her droppings are still fairly wet but not as bad as they were. I'm worried that she's not getting the vitamins and minerals she needs from this diet and wanted to see if I should be feeding her more. She came from a field where there was little grass and not much hay was provided so was really quite underweight. She has put on a bit of weight and grown half an inch but still looks really quite poor.

So, what would you feed her and why?!!!

Thank you for your help!
 
Biotal equine gold to see if that helps settle her gut. Maybe speedibeet to give her fibre and its low sugar so not too much sugar? and see if by solving the loose poo she retains more goodness from her current diet? It worked for my mare...
 
Bonnie is fed twice a day.

Just under a level scoop (when there's no rich grass) and a rounded (not heaped) scoop when there IS grass (my mare explodes on Spring grass) but NOT when she's on the biotal.

The tub (big one £25.50 from local merchant) lasts 7-8 weeks. Speedi beet, she gets 1/2 cup (dry measure) soaked in each feed in the winter and a 1/3 cup soaked in each feed in spring/summer, I couldn't believe how much difference it made to her poo's. Seriously she was doing cow pats, had to wash her back end every day as she was plastered and now she does normal ones and get's a little staining when the spring grass comes through but only requires a wash off once every 4-6 weeks... The speedibeet apparently helps control the gut acidity level when on new grass. Hope this helps
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