ready mash or conditioning flakes........anyone??

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Hi has anyone had experience of either of these feeds and which one would you recommened to condition a tb i am favouring the mash atm because it says it has vits mins etc included.
 
Can I confuse things further?

I looked at conditioning products many moons ago and at the time worried about the initial loading and quantities fed... since then I found Fast fibre which for me worked really well, very easy to up or reduce the quantity without a dramatic change and as it is the main component of horse's diets I felt much happier.

The other benefit is that a small amount goes a long way and extends the eating time... sorry if that isn't that much help!
 
No that is a help thanks, i think that ready mash is also fibre based but has milk powder and oil added. I was considering fast fbre too.:)
 
Fast fibre is brilliant stuff but not to put on condition. Its designed to be fed to fatties as its a excellent fibre source but very low in calories. I have had the A&P rep out to me many times and thats what she reccomended to my rather tubby 3 year old as it has hardly any calories in. I wouldnt give it to anything needing weight on.

I have fed super conditioning flakes to 1 horse and it did put weight on him nicely. Build up cubes put nice weight on my TB when she was very very skinny. Now she just gets high fibre nuts as she gets a bit loopy on most things and shes a excellent weight.
 
I presume you are talking about the topspec conditioning flakes?

If so I have found them great- they put on weight well and don't make any of mine loopy.
 
ready mash brought my horse out in lumps, i am currently using super conditioning flakes on my 24 yr old he get 1 coffee mug twice a day and in winter i switch to ap veteran vitality, which i would use on any horse as it helps with weight so well
 
Agreed, FF is what I use to control weight, balanced with Calm and Condition to put weight on, if you see what I mean, someone on here gave a big punt for ReadyMash, saying weight dramatically improved over six weeks, which is a good timescale imho. So looks like the way to go in the short term, then move over to Calm and Condition when you are at target weight/condition.
You don't say if there are teeth issues or other problems which might affect the diet as a whole, some oldies have to have a mash and or chaff as they can't chew hay
 
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I have never used ready mash but love the conditioning flakes. They have worked wonders on my straight out of training TB's. They sem to be working well enough on my Welsh D colt although I was told that they aren't designed for natives really, the TS Conditiong Cubes were. None of them have gone loopy on the Flakes - I have a 6furlong sprinter on them and he is THE laziest horse I have ever sat on!

As with anything if you feed them the right quantities then they will do their job, too much and the extra is just a waste, too little and they won't work as well.
 
I have used Ready mash extra on several underweight horses including a section D rig that winsucked, tried other things (calm and condition, build up, conditioning cubes) with no effect, put him on the readymash and his weight improved lovely,seemed to settle his stomach down nicely and once we had got him up to weight he maintained his condition so well that we were able to drop his hard feed completely.It is now my feed of choice, particuarly as the amount you need to feed for vitamins is very low compared with other feeds.
 
lilaclomax said:
Can I confuse things further?

I looked at conditioning products many moons ago and at the time worried about the initial loading and quantities fed... since then I found Fast fibre which for me worked really well, very easy to up or reduce the quantity without a dramatic change and as it is the main component of horse's diets I felt much happier.

The other benefit is that a small amount goes a long way and extends the eating time... sorry if that isn't that much help!
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Sorry, I completely forgot to add the oil part - that what typing whilst 2 young children argue in the background do to you!

I don't use oil now but was meant to suggest FF and added oil to condition ;)
 
ok so both sound like they could do the job , he is 16.2 and only 7 no teeth issues but needs condition and top line , not working at the moment due to recurrent infection in his foot. Does anyone know which would be cheaper?
 
Ive used both but would go with the Mash before the falkes for weight gain. My hunter gets mash all winter and he loves it
 
Readymash! I am using it on my TB and it's worked wonders - we've gone from this:
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to this:
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in 4 weeks.
 
Re Fast Fibre for weight gain - if you have a toothless old crone who can't digest hay, it's brilliant as a complete or partial hay replacer and will put weight on. Whereas used in place of a regular feed it probably won't do a lot but fill them up.

Re Readymash - we discovered this last winter and I can't praise it highly enough. They do three different versions from a very high fibre one to the extra with milk powder. My 25yo I didn't think was in need of anything special but he has really thrived and looked really brill all last winter having the readymash, and my 30+yo looks better than she's looked for years. Plus Spud will just drink the juice out of a scoop which is brill for endurance rides. A really useful feed, it has to be said.
 
Thanks BBh your horse looks great how long did this take?
Thanks EY if it improves my tb i think i will try it as my winter feed for the others :)
 
4 weeks, I feeds nuts, Alpha A oil and linseed with it as well as a balancer. Also that picture is from the 3rd of this month so she has put on more since.
 
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