Need my horse to havesome energy...HELP!

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Hi all,

I really am at the end of my tether.. i have a 6.3hh warmblood that every year around this time seems to lack in ooomph...i have previously had him blood teted and nothing was highlighted...i have tried pro plus...competition mixes...oats to no avail.. he just seems to be hard work and backwards.. i feel like im doing all the work and hesgot n get up and go. He is not always like it this is the thing.. he is currently in at night and is fed on competition mix, handful of alfa and propel plus. I've been told about the possibility of using racing mixes instead of competition mix and maize? Alo are there any othersupplements anyone else has found to work.. i feel so frustrated :( i am putting all the work into him and some days he feels brilliant and other days its like trudging through mud! He did it to me at a showjumping comp last weekend.. i came out of the arena and felt like i had taken a elephant round the course! I have ven kept his weight down this year in hope that would help.. but he has ebbedoff again and i have the energy problem again..

Any advice would be much apreciated.. even if its other people having the same issues!

Thank you
 
Not so much advice I'm afraid but I did have a similar issue with my TBxWB eventer. He didnt quite have enough get up and go for my liking, especially at certain times of the year so I went down the feeding route. After a couple of weeks of competition mix he was positively buzzing in his stable but was fairly similar to ride! He could switch on the fizz when he fancied it but I couldnt get him to do it on command.

I came to the conclusion that it was much more to do with his attitude and personality than what I was putting into his system. His attitude to galloping was a tell tale sign, he would happily pop along at a reasonable pace and had to be chased a bit to make the time XC. Only he could put himself into 6th gear....and he was very selective about when he chose to do this.

In terms of schooling, I went right back to basics to sharpen up and get him truly listening. I am under no illusion however that I made much of a difference but he was a complete super star to me even on his cant be bothered days!
 
I've started to feed mine on the soaked oats diet....I know loads of people don't agree with the concept but I find mine have more than enough energy without being fizzy

Maybe it's worth a shot?

Also savings drastically on the bank balance and really controls weight well too
 
Im willing to try anything! He is fairly laid back at times but others not...thats why its so annoying i could face up to it if he was dull all the time..i get glimmers of a fantastic on the ball horse then some days like i say hes like trudging through mud! I have posted some recent pictures in my album to show his stamp..
 
Well what I do is buy a bag on whole oats, then get a material bag from Morrisons, like a hesian bag but make sure it's not lined, then put some water in the bottom of a bin and soak 1 big chaff scoop for 12 hours then lift out of the water and let drain (I use a wooden pole/big stick) and drain on top of my bin

I started my gelding on a 1/4 of a big chaff scoop a day and this was enough in the summer, about 1 scoop - 1 1/2 in the winter

My teacher feeds all hers on this and she says she only ever feeds two scoops to her mare who have had foals

Also I'd recommend feeding seaweed and magnesium oxide (I get this from eBay the 88% stuff)
 
I have the same problem. Som days my boy is lively and full of energy and others he's slow and unresponsive. I find lot's of trans help as well as riding spurs to get them off the leg. However, I am unsure of what to feed him as he gains weight very easily.
Would high performance nuts help your horse, I am considering feding them to mine?:rolleyes:
 
I share your pain! My 5 year old TB mare is so lacking in oomph that I am knackered when I get back from a hack! Wearing spurs has little effect and I could probably beat her half to death with a schooling whip (not that I do, at all, whip has no reaction whatever)
She lives out 24/7 and doesn't have hard feed, very good doer. But I am sorely tempted to feed her something to liven her up (amphetamines?? :D )
Trouble is, she is very sensible and well behaved (aside from the odd spook) and I don't want to turn her into a loony. At the moment, riding her is no fun, just bloody hard graft!
 
I'm having this problem and I'm going down the fitness route.
YO says feed her high energy stuff but as I see it, if you're a couch potato stuffing more mars bars into your face will not give you energy, you will continue to sit on your arse and will get fatter.
I'm feeding a balancer only at the moment and working on improving her fitness. If once we're up and running she drops weight or appears to run out of energy I will then look at feed, but not before I've improved her fitness.
 
I have a big warmblood who started the year like this..

I feed him naked oats which I think are the best for energy (he flies at the moment). I also have gone back to basics with his schooling to sharpen him like another poster said above. I wear spurs only for schooling/ jumping and not for hacking so he can feel a difference and doesn't become immune to them. I have great big schooling whip and if he doesn't move off my first aid he gets a 'reminder'.

I also have a warm up routine when I am competing which involves me warming up with a schooling whip.. I wrattle him a bit, lot of walk to canter transitions, opening him up where you can and geeing him up. He's difficult because he's got amazing bronk in him so sometimes we get a bit too geed up. At the moment he's really strong to jump and hack but can lack ooomph in his flat work but he has the concentration span of a knatt! I also feed propell plus but generally before a comp or if he's worked hard and not consistently.
 
this was me last year and the year before. i fed mine tiger oats.
propell plus anything to give. Then found the lack of energy was due to laminis Make sure there is no underltning problem before u increase protein. 😃
 
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