spookypony
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to disentangle information about supplementing, and thought some of the clever feed geeks might come to my rescue!
Current feeding regime (or lack thereof): pony is out in his very muddy field with access to free-choice hay. Gets TopSpec Anti-Lam, + 5--10g magnesium oxide.
The plan was to continue this until there is some grass to test, have an analysis done, and then adjust feeding accordingly.
Problems arise:
1. I'd have to get both of the fields in which he spends time done, because one has been re-seeded.
2. Once the grass comes through, he'll be spending much of his time in pony-jail with hay again. As I understand it, this hay is somewhat randomly sourced, as in, doesn't come from a consistent supplier. I may be wrong about this.
Wondering if there is a point to getting the analysis done, given these circumstances, I was noseying around on Forageplus. In particular, I was looking at their "Summer Equine Balancer", where the nutritional analysis is given per 100g:
http://shop.forageplus.com/epages/es137718.sf/sec56475de054/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es137718/Products/FPS
Now, up here we have Norvite, a feed manufacturer that makes supplements specifically for North-East Scorland. Here's a link to their horse page; if you click on the link for the PDF, you can see the nutritional analysis, per kg:
http://www.norvite.com/norvite_horse.html
Can anyone help me disentangle the differences? The Norvite people claim to be catering for deficiency in selenium and copper, but am I wrong in thinking that their supplement actually contains less of this than the Forageplus one? HELP!!
I'm so confused!
Current feeding regime (or lack thereof): pony is out in his very muddy field with access to free-choice hay. Gets TopSpec Anti-Lam, + 5--10g magnesium oxide.
The plan was to continue this until there is some grass to test, have an analysis done, and then adjust feeding accordingly.
Problems arise:
1. I'd have to get both of the fields in which he spends time done, because one has been re-seeded.
2. Once the grass comes through, he'll be spending much of his time in pony-jail with hay again. As I understand it, this hay is somewhat randomly sourced, as in, doesn't come from a consistent supplier. I may be wrong about this.
Wondering if there is a point to getting the analysis done, given these circumstances, I was noseying around on Forageplus. In particular, I was looking at their "Summer Equine Balancer", where the nutritional analysis is given per 100g:
http://shop.forageplus.com/epages/es137718.sf/sec56475de054/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es137718/Products/FPS
Now, up here we have Norvite, a feed manufacturer that makes supplements specifically for North-East Scorland. Here's a link to their horse page; if you click on the link for the PDF, you can see the nutritional analysis, per kg:
http://www.norvite.com/norvite_horse.html
Can anyone help me disentangle the differences? The Norvite people claim to be catering for deficiency in selenium and copper, but am I wrong in thinking that their supplement actually contains less of this than the Forageplus one? HELP!!
I'm so confused! 
