micronised linseed or just up hay?

[scribble]

i have a 16.3 wb who has dropped a bit of weight off after having her wolf teeth out. she is currently on about 2-3 kg fast fibre turn out every day 1kg hay on morning and large eliminet in evening which admittedly i dont weight. do i just up her hay (she eats her straw bed and will choose this over hay despite hay being lovely and soft and sweet) or do i put micronised linseed if so how much as it seems quite expensive. We are mid norfolk so no idea who to get it from.

 

[TwoStroke]

I would feed ad lib hay before adding anything else, personally. Linseed is fab if extra is still needed after that, however .

 

[claribella]

I would say up the hay but if she's eating the straw over the hay then I'd do the linseed. You can get it online frm Charnwood milling and a bag lasts ages. They deliver so you shouldn't have any problems getting it.

 

[scribble]

she does eat the hay but if you put fresh straw in she will pick at it then go back to hay after few mouth fulls. I am inclined to let her eat the straw if she wants to as it fills her up and doesnt seem to do her any harm.

 

[joeanne]

Put her on shavings perhaps.....she will only have the hay to eat then.

 

[9tails]

If you want her to eat more hay, ditch the elimanet. No point making things difficult for her.

 

[ThePony]

If you want her to eat more hay, ditch the elimanet. No point making things difficult for her.

this totally! I would have her on ad lib hay from the floor, if that doesn't help then I'd pop a cup of micro linseed in her fast fibre.

 

[scribble]

I need it in the elimanet to slow her down otherwise she wolfs it down and chokes on it.

 

[Jools1234]

1kb of hay am is nothing to a horse that size, i am another who would give ad lib hay before hard feed and i also second the feeding it loose from the floor

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I would feed ad lib hay before adding anything else, personally. .

Me too. I'd get rid of the eliminet as well, in fact I'd feed from the floor.

 

[scribble]

I put her out with 1kg of hay so she has something but most of the time she leaves it on the floor in the field and walks on it hence not giving her a lot as she wastes it anyway.