Is my feed contradicing, am I wasting money?

[Champion1969]

I'm currently feeding my 3 year old cob mare Speedi beet, Alfa-A and Horse and Pony Cubes morning and evening, she is out in the day and on haylage at night.

Do the 3 above morning and evening feed sound right of am I cancelling out one from the other?

 

[Pinkvboots]

What do you mean by contradicting one another? Depends what kind of diet you are aiming for, how much of each is she getting?

I would say the Alfa A is quite rich for a 3 year old I presume not in work, I would feed Alpha A to something doing fairly hard work, is she at a good weight ?

 

[Milkmaid]

How is she looking?
Are you feeding the recommended amount of H&P nuts for her to be getting all of her nutrients?
She is still growing at 3 & whilst Alfalfa & Speedibeet are excellent feeds with good quality protein I would probably be inclined to ditch the cubes & feed a good forage balancer instead?
But in answer to your question, no,as long as you are giving her the RDA of the nuts then they will not ' cancel each other out'
What I would be concerned about would be the amount fed in one go. No more than about a 1kg per meal ideally in total when concentrates are fed so they don't end up in the hind gut undigested which can csuse gut disruption.
If you want to stick with the nuts then just give these alone twice a day, perhaps with a small amount of chaff to increase chewing. Then give a longer 'forage feed' over night of alfalfa & beet along side the hage?

 

[Milkmaid]

And as suggested above, the combination of hage, alfalfa & nuts may be too much for a cob?
Most youngsters IME are fine on good quality forage fed alongside a balancer & nothing else?

 

[Maesfen]

You don't say what sort of cob and whether it will be up for showing this summer but if it were mine it would be getting a Lo Cal balancer only with grazing and haylage/hay, nothing else as the last thing you want is for it to be over topped for its age and type; I would want her on the lean side rather than otherwise for the sake of her heart and limbs.

 

[Champion1969]

Sorry forgot to mention she is currently 14.1hh bum high middleweight, she has been backed (not by me) not going to start riding her till this summer even then only light work. Maybe show her next year.