Horse has gone off Codlivine - alternatives?

[Theocat]

I've been feeding Codlivine as a general purposes supplement for a few months now and my horse is looking great on it - the best I've seen him. Unfortunately he's started turning his nose up at it so I'm looking for recommendations for an alternative. I definitely want a powder rather than a pellet.

He gets two smallish feeds a day of sugar beet and Dengie Healthy Hooves, plus magnesium, brewers yeast and garlic. I'm very happy with his feed and how he looks on it - typical horse making life difficult for me and going off the Codlivine!

I don't think adding anything else to mask the taste will work, and I want something he'll eat in a small feed (I suspect he's gone off it because his feed has got smaller making the taste stronger) so I can keep the supplements at the right level while I change the feed quantity as necessary. I know the HH is complete when you feed it at the recommended levels, but he doesn't get anything like that much, hence the supplement.

Any suggestions?

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

Obviously micronised linseed meal from Charnwood Milling or others would be better anyway.......... its vegetarian, less processed and no fish die.
50 gm min
100gm in winter
up to 200gms or even more for a fit horse.
Best to go over to a hi fibre, plus oil,, and minerals diet.
Not so many are feeding garlic these days.
Don't feed molassed s.b [nuts], feed Quick beet/Easy beet plus a non molassed chaff.
Read all the ingredients of chaff or nuts, and avoid molasses and moglo:
"Oat straw, molasses, alfalfa, NIS pellets, rape seed oil, garlic, vitamin and mineral premix".........recognise this list of ingredients?
It is not likely anyone could afford to feed enough of this chaff to supply "the daily requirement of biotin" but then a balanced diet will provide the ingredients for horse to manufacture their own biotin.
A balanced diet is the solution for most equines rather than supplements.
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[Theocat]

Thanks - I do know the pros and cons of what I'm feeding but it does work for us.

He doesn't need masses of food, but he looks and generally seems better on an all round supplement so it seems more sensible to use one than to feed more to achieve the same level of vitamins and minerals. I use micronised linseed when he needs more condition (he doesn't at the moment!) but I'm quite happy to use a GP supplement plus linseed or oil if that works out best, rather than something combined.

 

[STRIKER]

Dont feed it for a week, it wont hurt and not long enough off it to make a difference to his vit intake, then try again, maybe he just isnt hungry eating grass.

 

[lamlyn2012]

Just a thought - There are two varieties of codlivine , you haven't picked up the other type by mistake by any chance?
I have fed codlivine for years and they look really well on it. Never had one just go off it though. Is it definitely the codlivine, or could it have gone past it's use by date. Hope you get it sorted anyway.