Recommendations for slow release energy feed please

[happihorse]

I currently feed my horse Allen & Page Sustain (along with sugar beet and Alfa-A), but the price has now rocketed to over £11 a bag! He gets through about one bag every ten days, so it is costing me a small fortune!

Can anyone recommend a cheaper alternative? I know that the Allen & Page feed contains probiotics, but he has Pink Powder so doesn't need probiotics in his feed.

He is schooled for about five or six days a week (for 40 minutes a time) and lunged the remaining days. He competes every other week and sometimes every week.

He needs enough energy for his workload without making him a loon!

I already give him linseed oil for energy / joints / coat!

 

[RachelB]

The Spillers stuff! Did wonders for my old share horse.

 

[ponyclubnicole]

Saracens Re-leve is fab. Slow release energy and they recommended it for my horse who works about the same as yours. He loves it too. No sugars and starch either.

 

[Thistle]

Spillers response slow release.

 

[charlotte1]

Spiller response slow release is fab, I use it on my very fizzy and temperamental horse, and she goes very well on it without making her hyper.

 

[embonaught]

Spillers is good but I find Winergy one better. Not Equilibrium as it's way too pricey - think it's called Winergy calm energy (green bag) and it's about £8. Smells nice, I'd probably eat it...

 

[lizh]

My horses are fed Alpha A plus a cupfull of oil which I buy from the cash and carry in large quantities. They also get salt added - again from the cash and carry.

Horses get a great source of slow release energy from both the oil and the Alpha A.

It means the food is processed all in the hindgut (as nature intended for horses) there are no issues with grain and tolerances. There has been some debate about oil coating grain and therefore the gut not 'identifying' the grain as it passes through and trying to process it in the hind gut where the identifiable element, oil, is processed. By not feeding grain you get the benefit of the oil with none of the possible side effects.

My horses event at BE Novice on this and are fit and well. They are turned out all day too but in at night.

Some horses can apparently react (hives) to blended oils but even large (25l) of single source oil are cheap. The large tubs also have a preserving agent in them which is Vitamin E - great for horses! My horses do well on blended oil and I've never had a problem, but do be cautious introducing it to the diet.

Every horse is different and this may not work for your horse but mine are all TBs and do extremely well on this.

 

[Krysha_n_Helga]

I use this feed and it fab so does most of the yard.

 

[Bert&Maud]

I used Spillers Response Slow Release cubes for my horse for 4 years, he always looked fab and his energy levels were consistent all year round.