Low calorie feed

[Fabel]

I’m looking for a low calorie feed to add to my mares hifi light and happy hoof. She’s a really good doer and is Welsh C x Cob. She’s in medium to hard work with a mixture of hacking and schooling. She gets limited turn out as she would be a lami candidate and her field buddy is a cushings pony. She gets Magnesium, B 12 and Evening primrose added as she is a hot head and this works best for her. Thanks

 

[MissTyc]

What is the feed for?

I rate Cushcare as a token "real" feed. My cob does well on it (doesn't have Cushings)

 

[Barton Bounty]

Veteran light is a good start ?

 

[Griffin]

I really rate Spillers Lite+Lean balancer. You could then probably dispense with the mg and B12. It doesn't add weight and my mare just shines on it.

 

[Fabel]

I will never take her off the magnesium as it’s made such a world of difference to her. I have the other one on relieve so may just give her a small amount of that

 

[Peglo]

You might be better off going for a molasses free chaff. Hi-fi lite and happy hoof both have a bit of molasses in it. You can get a molasses free hi-fi and happy hoof. My cousin has her lami ponies on A&P veteran vitality light.

 

[Auslander]

I’m looking for a low calorie feed to add to my mares hifi light and happy hoof. She’s a really good doer and is Welsh C x Cob. She’s in medium to hard work with a mixture of hacking and schooling. She gets limited turn out as she would be a lami candidate and her field buddy is a cushings pony. She gets Magnesium, B 12 and Evening primrose added as she is a hot head and this works best for her. Thanks

What are you hoping to achieve by adding another feed? Easier to suggest something if we know what the goal is

 

[Lady Jane]

Why do you want to feed her more? If its just bulk get a sugar/molasses free chaff?

 

[Jenko109]

Can you give us a better idea of her workload?

I think people regularly underestimate what medium or hard work actually means.

 

[PipsqueakXy22]

I use topspec balancer for my oldie. My local tack shop actually has a book catalogue of all the feeds they stock (and they stock ALOT) including all the nutritional information and it was the lowest starch and sugar content of all the feeds there

 

[rextherobber]

Pure Feeds are good, also contain balancer, so very time saving! They do a range to suit different workloads, but agree with poster above, we often overestimate how hard our horses work, and hence over feed. I know someone who events her horses on Pure Easy.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I wouldn't feed either of the chaff your feeding both have molasses in I feed a plain grass chaff then add some kind of mash currently feed spillers speedy mash, then I add a balancer like progressive earth pro balance.

 

[pistolpete]

Mine has soaked hay cobs from Thunderbrooks. Looks so bland but he eats them! Also just to get magnesium and boswelia into him.

 

[Leandy]

What does she need feeding for? I don't really get "low calorie" feed in a bucket. One gives hard feed to up the calorie (and possibly protein) level of the ration. The best most cost effective low calorie feed is forage.

 

[Squeak]

Agree with the others, what are you trying to get out of upping feed? If it's a good doer that just needs something to put some supplements in I'd go for a molasses free chaff as others have suggested and be jumping for joy that you basically don't need to buy hard feed at the prices of it this winter.

 

[Fabel]

We have a winter of medium dressage ahead of us and the turn out will be bugger all as soon as the weather turns. We should have been hunter trialing all summer but the weather got in the way. My friend rode her yesterday and couldn’t believe how well her flat work has come on and amazed by the madams lateral work.

 

[SpeedyPony]

If it's just bulk to carry supplements I'd go with unmolassed chaff- honeychop do a 'light and healthy' chaff that is hay based with some herbs in, will provide bulk and some calories but not too sugary/high calorie. Ours seem to find it quite palatable- more so than the unmolassed straw chaff.

 

[Auslander]

We have a winter of medium dressage ahead of us and the turn out will be bugger all as soon as the weather turns. We should have been hunter trialing all summer but the weather got in the way. My friend rode her yesterday and couldn’t believe how well her flat work has come on and amazed by the madams lateral work.

That's great - but doesn't really answer the questions!

 

[ihatework]

You have a fat hot head.
You are currently feeding happy hoof.

Im not sure why there is any need to change anything, unless you need to achieve anything different. You are already feeding a low calorie chaff presumably as a token/carrier for the supplements.

 

[Fabel]

You have a fat hot head.
You are currently feeding happy hoof.

Im not sure why there is any need to change anything, unless you need to achieve anything different. You are already feeding a low calorie chaff presumably as a token/carrier for the supplements.

Where exactly have I said she’s fat??

 

[ihatework]

Where exactly have I said she’s fat??

‘Shes a really good doer and a lami candidate ?‍‘

 

[Leandy]

Don't over complicate it. If she needs more hard feed over the winter as the grass loses value then I would simply add a basic ration of horse and pony nuts. I'm assuming you are/will be feeding a good quality supply of forage of some sort. Really not sure where "low calorie" comes into it. If she needs the calories feed them, if she doesn't don't.

 

[fidleyspromise]

How many times a week is she ridden and what what work? What does a typical week of work look like for her?

 

[The Xmas Furry]

I’m looking for a low calorie feed to add to my mares hifi light and happy hoof. She’s a really good doer and is Welsh C x Cob. She’s in medium to hard work with a mixture of hacking and schooling. She gets limited turn out as she would be a lami candidate and her field buddy is a cushings pony. She gets Magnesium, B 12 and Evening primrose added as she is a hot head and this works best for her. Thanks

If what your feeding works, what do you want/ think you will get out of your pony by adding another feed?

 

[Fabel]

If what your feeding works, what do you want/ think you will get out of your pony by adding another feed?

I’d like a bit more oomph with her loosing the plot also with winter coming and lost of comps planned I don’t want her to loose her current condition

 

[Fabel]

How many times a week is she ridden and what what work? What does a typical week of work look like for her?

6 days a week. We do 3 days hacking in farm land which is very hilly and takes 1.10hrs to get round the whole thing and 3 days schooling mainly flat work with a fair bit of canter as we are trying to improve her balance. It’s almost their now which is brilliant and her transitions are now spot on. It was very much me letting her down