Micronised Linseed .. does it make horses fizzy

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As title really .. I would like to put a little condition on my youngster without having her jumping out of her skin. I recently tried Top Spec which produced some interesting airs above the ground, even on a low dose, which I could happily live without.

So .. is the linseed the way to go, or not.




If anyone local to Cardigan, West Wales would like three quarters of a bag of Top Spec, please message me.
 
Yes, it makes my maxicob fizzy.

I couldn't quite believe that it could, so I stopped and started feeding it a few times and the difference was clear to see.

I call it the blue smartie effect. He is the same with carrots, top spec comprehensive balancer, too much rich grazing and tumeric. All now eradicated from his diet.

He's a chilled, lovely lad on his small twice daily feed of soaked hi fibre cubes, pro balance and salt, plus soaked hay to bulk out sparse grazing, and 24 hr turnout. He's a wild eyed, spooky reactive nightmare on any of his forbidden foods.

Not all horses are like this by any means, but its worth introducing it carefully, and see how you go. It did make his coat lovely and shiny, though :).
 
It shouldn't, but it did send one of mine a bit la la! However she is prone to exuberance and any real feed value stuff anyway!
 
No I am sure those that it does affect are probably just feeling really well not particularly fizzy but keen and healthy
 
Did to one of mine, but different air quality could send him over the edge. My very spooky classically TB TB is fine on it though, no matter how much I give him.
 
Tiddlypom said:
He's a chilled, lovely lad on his small twice daily feed of soaked hi fibre cubes, pro balance and salt, plus soaked hay to bulk out sparse grazing, and 24 hr turnout. He's a wild eyed, spooky reactive nightmare on any of his forbidden foods.
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How weird. Linseed makes my TB nutty and this is exactly the diet that works for him. I, too, did a lot of experimenting to discover this and desperately didn't want the linseed to be the cause!
 
We feed it when they are changing their coats (the new coat comes through so shiny and soft). My mare is a Section D x TB and pretty forward going and it doesn't heat her, her field mate The Cob is a standard issue Irish cob and also pretty animated (for a cob) and it doesn't heat him either.
 
Have a 17hh TB ex racer, an ex broodmare WB, a trotter X and a young cob, I swear by linseed, mine are more lively, but not fizzy, my two 20yr olds (TB &WB) benefit from age related aches and pains being relieved, the WB went from being a field ornament, to light hacking and loves it
 
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