Rates for feeding Limestone Flour?

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Have just started feeding oats and was only able to get an unlabelled bag of limestone flour - so no feeding guidelines.

Does anyone know the feeding rates to add, for:

(a) 20 month WBxTB (to make 16.2+)

(b) 10 year old TB mare (15.1h, 460Kg)
 
The long yearling gets D&H Sure Grow along with the soaked bruised oats and HiFi lite, plus ad lib haylage. She's getting 1 Kg oats per day, 1.2 Kg Sure Grow & 1 Kg HiFi per day, divided into 2 feeds.
 
Whats the reason for the oats? The suregrow is for vits and mins, hifi light for fibre. Are the oats for energy? If so you would probably be better off changing the hi fi light for alfalfa and dropping the oats and limestone. I know this isnt what you originally asked but you have to be careful with unbalanced diets with youngsters and feeding one thing to counteract another problem can become v complicated!
 
But, why not the oats? My long yearling is already getting her full vit/min and protein requirements from the SG pellets.

My horses enjoy oats! None of my youngstock have been particularly impressed with the SG pellets on their own and the soaked oats make the feeds more palatable. Nor do my horses need Alfa A as I keep their weights down whilst they're developing so the HiFi does them just fine. Nor do they need the additional protein provided by Alfa A.

Our YO's feeds their foals, yearlings and two year olds ONLY oats, sugarbeet and chaff with salt and codliver oil supplement. They take a dim view of the Sure Grow pellets I use, and peer at them suspiciously, considering them an un-necessary waste of money! Their horses look good and well grown. My horses look good and well grown. So, who's to say either way is incorrect?
 
Was just wondering why you fed them, thats all. They are higher in energy than alfalfa and similar in protein so if you were worrying about weight gain and too much protein, the same weight of alfalfa would actually be better. And you run less risk of starch related issues.
If you feed them to encourage your horses to eat thats fine, just that you are unbalancing the diet you have carefully balanced with the suregrow and then you are having to feed a guesstimate amount of calcium from limestone to sort it, thats all.
 
on the back of my limestone flour tub it says a tablespoon a day! although i am tempted to try the tiger oats...have the calcium/phospherus balance already sorted!!
 
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