question for all people feeding TB's!

to put on weight i would use dodson and horrell pasture mix and 3 times a week a good dollop of boiled barley and linseed mixed, cooked at home, never found anything like it for putting on condition, its very good for the digestion also, it lubricates the guts and is very easily assimilated, you need the little brown linseeds and the natural barley grains, it is possible to make hell of a mess in the kitchen! but the results are spectacular, it must be cooked thoughly but it only takes about an hour, and served fresh when slightly cooled and mixed with the pasture mix, and they love it!
 
I used both alfa beet / fibre beet with very good results, and also Baileys No 1.

Also try pink powder - it can help them digest / use their feed more effectively meaning you can feed less.
 
I was feeding apfa beet - like sugar beet, but no sugar. http://www.dengie.com/pages/products/additional-products/alfa-beet.php plus chaff and mixture of hay & haylage because haylage hotted him up.
He was a good weight through out the winter. But still very exitable, maybe not so much as when he was previously on calm and condition (If I remember correctly I took him off because of cereals or sugar)
 
Calm and condition made mine totally loopy!! After researching it it seems quite a few people have had that. But loads of horses are happy on it, just not mine!

She now gets pony nuts, a small handful of alpha a, a big lot of oil (100ml per 100kg of weight is what the vet said so she gets rather alot. The oil is pure calories without bulk and makes her coat look lovely) and unmollased sugar beet.

She looks fab on it and is a compleatly different horse to her C&C days!!!
 
We feed our girl ..

Alfalfa, Speedibeet, Baileys No 4, Baileys outshine.

Works a treat for her, she looks really well after dropping weight a little at the start of winter, and it doesn't make her loopy! The only thing that makes her loopy occasionally is her being a marish little bugger, but we love her anyway :)
 
My mums TB gets
3 scoops Alfa A oil
2 scoops kwik Beet
1/4 - 1/2 scoop Re-leve
3 mugs outshine
Plus Haylage/Hay it's all split in to 2 feeds per day.

My TB gets:-
2 scoops Alfa A oil
2 mugs low cal balancer or pink powder
Handful meadow nuts
Plus Haylage again all split in to 2 feeds.
If he's working hard and dropping off I start to feed him more of the nuts, up to a scoop in each feed.

Mine gets a lot less because he's a greedy piggy and eats much more haylage and grass then my mums horse. My mums horse can be a bit picky with his haylage and leaves
more so unfortunatly he needs more bucket food :)
 
TB, 4 years old, almost starved to death when we found her one year ago, now normal weight

diet (daily, 3 meals a day)

1.5 kg oats (500 g per meal)
1.5 kg mare & youngstock mix (500 g per meal)
2 kg soft n soak (app 700 g per meal)
cooked linseed every other day (150 g)
alfa a oil (3 scoops, one per meal)
sunflower oil (one big spoon full with every meal)
garlic
carrots

hay ad lib

she's out during the day, stabled at night, unclipped and rugged up
 
We have a big, skinny ex-hurdler that we're building up at the moment. He gets a full scoop of Dengie alfalfa pellets (according to the website that's 1.6kg) twice a day and the appropriate amount of Top-Spec original. We mix it with tons of water (hot water in winter, so it expands really well), and he loves to dribble it everywhere!

He used to have just the alfalfa pellets which maintained his weight fairly well, but on the advice of our instructor we put him on the Top-Spec as well to help him build up muscle on top of that and it's worked really well.
 
Thank you all so much! so many different ways of feeding the nightmare TB'S!!!
i got pink powder today and think i will go for the micronised linseed as that seems to have the best effect!
thanks again all!
 
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