NAF pink powder

[islauren]

I’ve been recommended to feed this in order to help my mare build some top line. And I was just wondering what people feed alongside this ? Will she still need a condition mix etc.. or could I feed this alongside just a chaff

Thanks

 

[Birker2020]

Pink Powder is basically a feed balancer but much cheaper than what usually out there on the market.
It contains live yeasts and probiotics. It promotes healthy gut function, and it also contains vitamins, minerals and micro nutrients.
Whether or not you use a conditioning mix depends on your horses temperament, what work it's in and how much it's fed. Personally unless its in a lot of work I would just feed chaff.

 

[islauren]

Pink Powder is basically a feed balancer but much cheaper than what usually out there on the market.
It contains live yeasts and probiotics. It promotes healthy gut function, and it also contains vitamins, minerals and micro nutrients.
Whether or not you use a conditioning mix depends on your horses temperament, what work it's in and how much it's fed. Personally unless its in a lot of work I
would just feed chaff.

she’s a hunt horse but due to injury has had some time off and come back in with not a lot of muscle. The conditioning mix that she’s in currently is sending her loops hence the reason I’ve been recommended this. By feeding pp and a decent chaff will that be sufficient enough to help build top line ?

 

[Birker2020]

she’s a hunt horse but due to injury has had some time off and come back in with not a lot of muscle. The conditioning mix that she’s in currently is sending her loops hence the reason I’ve been recommended this. By feeding pp and a decent chaff will that be sufficient enough to help build top line ?

I'd have thought so but if you aren't sure ring NAF, they will have a nutritionist to speak to.

 

[sbloom]

Top line needs correct work (of course, and I'm sure you know that, but do look to the really brilliant in hand postural work by people like Manolo Mendez and Marijke de Jong) and then protein/amino acids. A probiotic and/or yeast may help the horse to get the most from their diet but you need to look at the rest of the diet, and although I'm a bit out of date these days I think there are better products.

Have a look at this - https://forageplustalk.co.uk/understanding-quality-protein-for-horses/?pdf=8482 - amino acids are the building blocks of protein, I'd look there first, and do some reading about overall diets for horses, on here, on that site, wherever you can. Many chaffs will be incredibly low in protein, and so many horses are probably fed diets very poor in protein levels.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

PP will not build topline. TBF it's not advertised as doing so. My advice is to avoid it like the plague. We fed it to our 2 ridden horses, when we first changed to haylage and it made them footy and spooky - never again! It has all sorts of filler ingredients that don't do anything for horses. We stopped the PP and continued to feed haylage, their behaviour and feet went back to normal.