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I have a four year old filly sports horse cross whose personality changes from being so sweet and laid back, to being quite edgy, and it is the food as in the Summer when she is just on grass she is a love. I am feeding the best Dodson & Horrell nuts having taken advice from them but I need to feed her
something else. I have tried the cool mix and that makes her edgy too, so I wonder about sugar beet with other feeds, and would be very grateful to receive advice.
 
If she works well on grass I'd look at just feeding her a chaff of sorts, speedie beet, and if she needs extra condition some linseed meal with a decent vitamin and mineral supplement.

Currently I feed my boy, 1 scoop of baileys ultra grass (it's chopped dried spring grass with a coating of soya oil) and one soaked scoop of speedie beet, with a supplement. He currently gets this as tea and soon I will be giving the same for breakfast too.

Personally if your horse fizzes with feed I'd stear well clear of most nuts and all mixes.

If it were my horse I'd be feeding ad lib hay, and starting with speedie beet and ultra grass then talking it from there.
 
Cereals break down to starch (= sugar) so it sounds as though she can't cope with them. Echo Queenbee - my lot get unmollassed beet plus grass nuts as a base, with supplements and extras added according to their needs.
 
cantee said:
Queenbee: Thanks ever so for that. I will try her on this combination right away.
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Just make sure the change is gradual over about a week so it's not too much of a shock to the system. Depending on how large your feed store is you may have to order the ultra grass but my feedstore gets it in about two days later. For a supplement, I like equimins, the beet, grass and supplement are like the never ending story, they last for ages.
 
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