Oh I give up!

[ATrueClassAct]

Scooped another load of £40 Feed into skinny Arabs feed bowls tonight, and I cried inside.
No matter what I do the pony does not gain a decent amount of weight. So screw you bony pony! Go enjoy your big feed and ample haynet with your warm bedding whilst I cry at my bank statements.
*cries*

 

[ArabianGold]

Fibre mash, swear by it!!!

Don't give up my TB was the same.. Now she's got a lovely shape..

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Awww. It's tough when they are poor doers. Just think how thin she'd be if you didn't feed her so well.

Chin up.

 

[ATrueClassAct]

Silly pony haha, it's been 8 years now of trying. Vet checks her often and says she's healthy just a bit bony. Guess she's not gonna be a prize meat pony too soon, and I can't threaten with the meat man...since he wouldn't get mich off her

 

[ladyt25]

What are you feeding her and is she elderly?

 

[BabyA]

Haven slobber mash! Put weigh on my 36 year old pony & made my 5 year old fill out without livening him up. I've used blue chip, top spec etc added to feed and this is the only feed that's worked. Approx £12 per bag but you soak it and it lasts for ages!

 

[showjumpingfilly]

Baileys cooked cereal meal!!

 

[mollichop]

Yep slobber mash is fantastic for putting condition on - not too pricey either

 

[ATrueClassAct]

Shes on topspec veteran, top spec lite chop and speedi beet. Ad lib wet hay(not soaked) and grass. She's 23 and has been very lean from being a baby. The topspec got some more weight on her, hip bones aren't as obvious anymore.

 

[s4sugar]

Shes on topspec veteran, top spec lite chop and speedi beet. Ad lib wet hay(not soaked) and grass. She's 23 and has been very lean from being a baby. The topspec got some more weight on her, hip bones aren't as obvious anymore.

Equibeet do an unmollassed version so that costs about a third less than speedibeet. I would swop the lite chop to redigrass and throw in some barley rings.

What you are feeding is a fat horse diet.

 

[ATrueClassAct]

Shes got cushings. So technically has to be on a Laminitic diet. So many products she can't have.

 

[s4sugar]

You didn't say that!

I would still stop the lite chop as that is only hay & straw. Readigrass & unmollassed equibeet would cut the feed bill in half.

 

[ATrueClassAct]

I know sorry! It was more a joke thread since I got sent my bank statement today and it all seems to go on her feed . Welshie and gelding get sod all compaired!

 

[TigerTail]

Give Debbie at Thunderbrooks a ring, her basemix bran and oats are amazing for weight, give all the cals and minerals they need in a small feed.

Horses can only process a tiny amount at a time so if you feed a massive bucket 2/3rds of it wil just get pushed straight through to the hind gut and be of no use to them at all so is wasted money......