Non heating, low sugar feed for supplements

[Tansibel]

I have a connemara x ish, he's 5 and was 614kg last time he was weighed. He's a very good doer, lives off fresh air but doesn't pile on weight either. He's currently on dengie hi fi molasses free (a scoop between two feeds) equine america pro-kalm and radiance gold supplement for sarcoid. I have only started giving him feed for the two supplements however have been told the dengie feed can send some horses mad? The gelding is generally laid back chap but when he gets overwhelmed hes a ticking time bomb and will explode. Curious what feeds people use to just give supplements? Non heating, as natural as possible and as sugar free as possible!

 

[Pinkvboots]

Chopped grass I don't feel anything with alfalfa in it.

Emerald grass tastic or graze on grass

 

[Meredith]

Fast fibre

 

[ecb89]

Honeychop lite and healthy

 

[JenJ]

I have a connemara x ish, he's 5 and was 614kg last time he was weighed. He's a very good doer, lives off fresh air but doesn't pile on weight either. He's currently on dengie hi fi molasses free (a scoop between two feeds) equine america pro-kalm and radiance gold supplement for sarcoid. I have only started giving him feed for the two supplements however have been told the dengie feed can send some horses mad? The gelding is generally laid back chap but when he gets overwhelmed hes a ticking time bomb and will explode. Curious what feeds people use to just give supplements? Non heating, as natural as possible and as sugar free as possible!

Mine get a small amount of speedibeet for supplements.

With regard to you being told the dengie feed can send some horses mad, that may be true for some horses, but certainly not all! If your horse is happy on that feed, and you're happy with him on that feed, you don't need to change just because some horses aren't happy on it.

 

[Follysmum]

Mollichaff light is great
Cheaper than most also

 

[Fieldlife]

Chopped grass I don't feel anything with alfalfa in it.

Emerald grass tastic or graze on grass

both nice but neither are low sugar 10.4% sugar and 11% sugar

 

[Pinkvboots]

both nice but neither are low sugar 10.4% sugar and 11% sugar

Yes agree but mine get a few handfuls once a day so not alot then.

 

[criso]

both nice but neither are low sugar 10.4% sugar and 11% sugar

Agreed.

Emerald green do low cal/ lo sugar options too. Meadow magic or fibre fabulous depending on whether you want a chop or a cube.

 

[Kirstd33]

Spillers senior mash

 

[cauda equina]

Mine get their supplements in Simple System HayCare
It's 100% Timothy, soaks to a mash and is less than 10% sugar and starch combined

 

[Tiddlypom]

Soaked Baileys natural meadow cobs. An Agrobs Wiesencobs copy, but easier to source.

Half a small mugful of dried cobs pre soaked for 12 hours in 3 times the volume of water.

ANALYTICAL CONSTITUENTS​

• Digestible Energy6MJ//kg
• Protein9%
• Oil2.0%
• Fibre30%
• Ash11%
• Starch2.2%
• Sugar7.8%
• Starch and sugar levels may vary due to the natural nature of the product.

 

[Peglo]

We’ve always used dengie hifi chaff and none of ours has ever gone silly on it.

I also use dengie hifi molasses free for my very good doer. I changed to grass chaff a couple of years ago (to see if it would help with itchiness. It didn’t) and her coat lost her shine and I didn’t think she did so well on it. She eats her Hifi with her supplements happily.

 

[anglo]

Simple sytems , Dengie meadow lite , Thunderbrooks all do feeds suitable

 

[GypsGal1718]

I like the meadow lite from dengie and you get a lot per bag

 

[Doodlesmum]

Another vote for Dengie Meadow Lite here. One bag lasts me ages, and I'm feeding three ponies.