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A few weeks ago my horse was rather thin, but is now being fed more, and has put on a nice amount of weight.

However, he coat is still looking really poor, and her skin is quite scurfy. I would ideally like recommendations for what I can add to her feed to help with this.

At the minute she is on Baileys No 4, as well as fibrebeet, dried grass and linseed x3 daily. The linseed has not made any difference to her whatsoever, so I would like other ideas of products I can use.

I don't want to use Outshine (as wonderful as it is), as I do not feed her, and leaving bags of expensive feed at livery yard, as the chances are it will end up in someone elses horse! I have also tried normal veg oil in the past, and it hasn't really helped to brighten up a dull coat.

Any suggestions welcome!
 
I think you may need to take control of her diet if she is being fed as part of a full livery arrangement.

I would have her D&H build up cubes and Alpha A. Both brilliant feeds for condition and bloom.
 
Shes on full livery - theres no way I can be feeding her three times a day! The diet she is on at the minute has helped exceptionally well with the weight gain, just not improving her coat!
 
wench said:
Shes on full livery - theres no way I can be feeding her three times a day! The diet she is on at the minute has helped exceptionally well with the weight gain, just not improving her coat!
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They can do the feeding - you just supply the ingredients.

Why did they allow her to drop weight??

How much haylage does she get?
 
Top spec cubes might help, would be good for her weight & are high oil so should help with coat shine. Have you tried a high oil chaff? Such a the alfalfa oil or the spillers conditioning fibre.
Surprised the linseed isn't helping,my horse is on TS cubes,spillers chaff & linseed & shines like a mirror!
 
You can literally see yourself in my boy's coat, he is fed grass nuts/chopped grass with speedi -beet with Super Codlivine supplement.

Global Herbs restore is fab stuff, he has been on that too, just coming to the end of the bottle (I feed it as a course as and when) and he is super shiny now. Even the two wooly bears have an amazing shine with Restore/Super Codlivine.
 
We have had fantastic results with Feedmarks' Equidermis plus on an RID mare that used to have really coarse hair and scurfy skin. Her hair is so soft now, I am really chuffed with how well it has worked for her.
She used to rub herself to bits, verging on, but not quite sweet itch every summer and this is why we originally tried it. It is delivered to our door and it quite reasonably priced and, it works for us.
 
Mine is on Alfa A Oil and Baileys No 4, the oil seems to keep him shiny. Restore is brilliant stuff, he definitely has more mojo after a course of it.

Odd that linseed didn't work, maybe you need to blood test to see if there is something else going on?
 
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