Oats for barefoot and condition

[Pinkvboots]

my boy has just moved onto tiger oats and gwf balancer (oat based) and he is positively starting to gleam. Both my two are BF and interestingly with both of them their persistent thrush is getting better without treatment as such (they both hate treatment).

I might give them a try not that expensive either.

 

[Nannon]

Recently started my very poor tb on oats - having tried most conditioning feeds and having no success! He was on speedibeet, Alfa a oil, micronised linseed and supplements and looking ok - still very lean though, decided to add oats and have to say he's really really coming on! They haven't fizzed him up either and he hasn't gone footy - also barefoot. He's starting to bulk up finally (!!!) and people on my yard have commented on how he looks he only gets 2 and a half mugs at the moment, and gets worked every day with a day off in 8-10, schooling for up to an hour, lunging, and hacking out once a week.

 

[amandaco2]

Last yr

And this yr

 

[Captain Bridget]

I've just started mine on oats, I'm hoping he'll look like the lovely TB's on here soon!

Only problem I've found so far is that at the moment I'm introducing the linseed and oats so he's not getting very much and he is quite picky so didn't want to eat his dinner. I ended up adding a little bit of pasture mix just to get him to eat it!

Hopefully once he has more oats/linseed he'll eat up a bit better!

 

[ellie11987]

Only problem I've found so far is that at the moment I'm introducing the linseed and oats so he's not getting very much and he is quite picky so didn't want to eat his dinner. I ended up adding a little bit of pasture mix just to get him to eat it!

Hopefully once he has more oats/linseed he'll eat up a bit better!

I found this with mine who is the greediest pig ever. If it has a decent amount of linseed in, she will eat it. If not, no chance!

 

[Hurricanelady]

I feed soaked whole oats as part of as natural a diet as possible with varying quantities of the following depending on each horse's age and metabolic status etc (Equimins Advance Complete Concentrate to provide vits and mins without soya that is often in balancers, grass nuts, micronized linseed, whole soaked oats, fibrebeet; and of course quality hay/haylage). It works very well and seems to suit them all, from a 2 and 3 year olds, through hard working 13 year old and then 2 20 year olds.

When I was buying my oats from Thunderbrook they never actually were organic during that 2 year period, they were only able to supply "normal" oats which I ended up being able to source much more competitively (because of not having to pay delivery fees on 20 kg sacks of oats) through my local feed merchant.

 

[ktj1891]

What make of oats does everyone use?

 

[dianchi]

Half tempted to try this with my TB, is crushed oats the same?

 

[nikkimariet]

We use rolled oats. Pretty much the same as crushed. We soak for more efficient digestion too.

 

[Goldenstar]

We use rolled oats. Pretty much the same as crushed. We soak for more efficient digestion too.

How long do you soak them for and do you use cold water ?

 

[ellie11987]

What make of oats does everyone use?

i get whole oats from farmandpetplace.com for about £8 for a 25kg sack

 

[maccachic]

I feed oats whole. As soon as the inside is exposed to air the nutritional value decreases and..

"Another reason for whole oats (instead of crushed) is that you need the intact kernel in order to receive the fat content of the whole grain. The husk of the whole oat is very important for correct chewing and digestive processes. A horse with good teeth and proper dental care will chew and digest the whole oat, leaving only husks in the manure. If oats are coming out undigested, there could be a tooth or digestion problem going on, so be sure to investigate that." https://www.thehorseshoof.com/oats1.html

 

[tallyho!]

I bet you a bag from local feedo's whole oats sprout. Bought some from my merchant and grew them. It changes some of the properties but not all. I dont think thunderbrooks' oats are "special".

 

[Holidays_are_coming]

I might try this with my gelding! Great

 

[Holidays_are_coming]

Ok nmk when you soak them do you drain the water or just cover slightly with water and feed like that? Do you feed a balancer or anything with them?

 

[tallyho!]

Ok nmk when you soak them do you drain the water or just cover slightly with water and feed like that? Do you feed a balancer or anything with them?

You need to drain the water.

I fed mine as an addition to normal feeds. Oats are a more complete grain than barley or anything else but still needs to be fed as part of a balanced diet.

I mixed mine with what she was already having which was: soaked pure alfalfa, non-mollassed beet with linseed rounded off with non-molassed chaff.

 

[Holidays_are_coming]

Ok at the moment he is on 2 scoops of high fibre conditioning cubes, which are fully balanced at that amount! So Ill get some oats as his bum looks like some of the pics on the other page!

 

[tallyho!]

Go for it!

I decided to sprout mine just to see what the looked like... Sure enough after three days, little roots and shoots started and by the end of a week I could have had it as a salad!! Lol!!

I gave them to her like that too.

 

[nikkimariet]

How long do you soak them for and do you use cold water ?

Ok nmk when you soak them do you drain the water or just cover slightly with water and feed like that? Do you feed a balancer or anything with them?

They are soaked overnight but only because that's how the feed run works Use cold water yes. I don't drain the water no, it's handy for mixing supplements in! I don't feed a balancer but both Fig and CS get Winergy (conditioning and high energy respectively) which is a whole feed in addition to the rest of their feed.

 

[amandaco2]

Soak in cold water overnight, whole feed soaked so water isnt drained off.