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Adlib good quality hay or haylage is usually the best, safest and cheapest way to put on weight (apart from good grazing).

As for bucket feed, a lot depends on what you are feeding already, whether the horse is a fussy eater, whether it gets fizzy on cereals and whether it has any intolerances to certain feedstuffs.

And how many times you can feed a day is a consideration too.
 
If a horse can't eat hay, then you need to give some form of hay replacer - I used to use a combination of Spiller's Happy Hoof and soaked high fibre cubes for my old pony when she was unable to eat hay any more. I think Dengie do a fact sheet on hay replacer recipes if you want to contact them.
 
Lucinuts from simple system .My old horse looks great on them. They have to be soaked so very easy on an old horse.I buy quite a few bags to get free delivery, I soak quite a lot in the morning and feed to all my horses at night
 
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at the moment he is on redigrass, chaff, alfa a , fast fibre , high fibre cubes, 16+mix, barley rings and blue chip

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Good god.....whats left? Thats a bit complex...I would stick to alfa-a oil, high fibre/oil cubes and speedibeet- plus the Blue-chip if you want to......it takes time to build condition/weight ....
 
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Lucinuts from simple system .My old horse looks great on them. They have to be soaked so very easy on an old horse.I buy quite a few bags to get free delivery, I soak quite a lot in the morning and feed to all my horses at night

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Totally agree, I feed these - well actually I now use Dengie Alfalfa pellets which are exactly the same thing but cheaper!
They keep weight on my retired TB, it's the only thing that has ever done! I also soak them.
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i use the following twice daily for my 16.3hh TB:

1 1/2 Alfa-a Oil
1/2 Afla-Beet
1 pony nuts

he is out all day and on good quality ad lib hay at night.

my horse is a bit fizzy on the wrong stuff. this works well for him.
 
Calm and condition is great, there is also a feed called fast fibre that you soak and can be a hay replacement feed that worked wonders when Riv was loosing weight through his ulcer and could only have fibre.

Good luck.
 
It is not just what you feed, but you need to be feeding the correct amounts. Probably best to ring one or two of the feed companies and they can give you a detailed feeding plan based on his size.

Probably best to try Dengie, Spillers and/or Allen & Page, as they all have suitable feeds for hay replacement, as well as normal conditioning feeds.
 
Is he finding it difficult chewing due to his age? Or do you think there are other issues going on due to his age?

You're feeding a very complicated diet at the moment - I'd recommend feeding Dengie HiFi Senior (which is an excellent source of fibre and can be used as a hay replacer if your boy is struggling with his hay?) Also (as TGM has already suggested) feeding soaked High Fibre cubes is great for oldies and they love it (I prefer spillers). You can also add oil to his diet for increased weight, the omega 3/6 found in oils will also really help lubricate his joints too so win/win
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You could feed him a good prebiotic to encourage a strong hind gut environment to aid digestion - but I'd try to feed recommended amounts of each feed rather than mix and match a lot of different ones as you're unbalancing the nutrients (which is why you feed a balancer?).
Good luck with him
Kate x
 
I find Bailey's number 1 excellent for putting on weight and it is very palatable and so long as you make it quite wet, doesn't need much chewing! I give it to my older girl every winter and she lives out and holds her weight ok.
 
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