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I need to find and stick with a decent feed for my 4 horses and although they don't need feed for now I want to know what I'm at before winter!
They have been on simple systems but have completely gone off it and tbh they never really liked it!

2 tbs will be living out with a shelter and good grazing, last year I barely had to feed hay! They will be in shod so nothing to sugary and they are both retired and quite stress and buzzy so a calming feed would be great! One is a better doer than other so obviously I will separate to feed, hay will be available when they need it but last year they didn't really touch it until snow or hard frost etc.

The other two tbs will be in medium work with possibilty of a few days hunting and low key showjumping over winter, one is a very stress horse and drops weight so quickly, calm and condition sent him loopy and he doesn't seem to like anything to sloppy. He dies nit eat nuts either! Other one I have gad for a few days so can't really comment on condition he will hold over winter etc!

Ideally I'd like to not have to buy a million different feeds but any help would be great!

Thanks in advance if anyone replies!
 
plain and simple... contact Pure Feeds!

i have 2 horses on 2 different feeds of theirs and they look at their absolute best (condition wise - one is 6 and one is 19)
 
Right. For the poor doer get some Red Mill Cool N Cooked Mix down him, with Blue Chip and Mollichaff Showshine. For the others, Mollichaff Showshine with some sugarbeet, and possibly some of the mix if they need a bit extra.
The mix absolutely changed all my horses. I feed it to almost all my liveries and everyone comments on how well and shiny they look on it. Plus it smells like flapjacks - never a bad thing!
 
I wouldn't call myself an expert but I would go with fast fibre as its high fibre low sugar and has basic vits and mins but then add linseed micronised. The combination combined is great for horses that are unshod, great for keeping them warm on cold days. You can feed as much fast fibre as you want as its a hay replacer too. The linseed helps with the feet, condition, coat and skin. It's both dead dead cheap and my girl who is a fussy eater and also didn't much like the simple system stuff, absolutely adores this and looks great on it. Absolutely brilliant stuff, can't recommend it high enough.
 
Ah just missed the not liking anything sloppy. You can change the consistency of the fast fibre. Sometimes I give it to her really sloppy but if you don't add as much water and leave it for a bit then it is a little bit drier. I chop and change it with my girl and in the winter I add warm water which she loves as its like a porridge then.
 
Starzaan said:
Right. For the poor doer get some Red Mill Cool N Cooked Mix down him, with Blue Chip and Mollichaff Showshine. For the others, Mollichaff Showshine with some sugarbeet, and possibly some of the mix if they need a bit extra.
The mix absolutely changed all my horses. I feed it to almost all my liveries and everyone comments on how well and shiny they look on it. Plus it smells like flapjacks - never a bad thing!
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:eek: I think you missed the bit about them being unshod, and the OP wanting to avoid anything too sugary ;).

I would second fast fibre (or unmollassed beet) as a base, then add varying amounts of micronised linseed for extra calories. Simples :).
 
We feed ours (a mixture of shod and unshod) on differing quantities according to their needs of; soaked grassnuts, dried grass chaff, oat straw chaff, linseed oil, Brewer's yeast, bran (small quantity), soaked Speedibeet. This diet can be adapted for all of them - the good doers are only get straw chaff with a tiny amount of bran and Brewer's yeast (to stop the runs), while the 30 yr old gets some of everything except bran and straw. Because the basis of this is straights it is relatively inexpensive and extremely effective.
We have learned over the years to keep it simple.
 
I have all mine from 11hh exmoor - 16.2hh tb on the same diet just different amounts which is fast fibre, linseed, cal mag, equimins advance complete. Fab feed for all and very good for barefoot. The only thing I alter is the amount off linseed they get
 
ellie_e said:
Fast Fibre is great stuff. Maybe just add a balancer, some chaff/hi fi and fast fibre?
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Hi I have tbs two that are total opposites i feed mine molichaff calmer, (has added magnesium - good for keeping calm and relaxed), fast fibre - as mine aren't fans of anything sloppy and conditioning cubes with triple top up powder added in for the one that tends to drop condition- to be honest if your horse doesn't like the nuts the triple top up is ace! it just mixes in with the other feed and is a powder - its really fattening and has loads of extra added nutrition but is also a balancer so half a scoop in your good doers will do them good too - its great keeps my really poor doer looking great without the fizz and without having a million different feeds floating around the feed room its really good value to and that way you can just top up with that if one needs a little more condition without having to buy more bags and lotions and potions
 
I find a combination of sugar beet and Alfa oil works really well, for good doer you may want to swap for hifi lite, but it depends on how much of a good doer he is, for horses in work just up the quantity a bit. For my mare in work, and my unbroken youngster stabled at night in the winter a scoop of each morning and eve was ideal. For the good doer you can soak sugar beet and sluice through to wash out molasses. Both were unshod and not at all footy
 
Beans2000 said:
Are they not like simple systems?
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ive never fed simple systems to mine but pure feed is a really "clean" looking feed and it doesnt have to be soaked to be fed, my two wolf it down.

have a look on their website for more ideas re the nutrition content. i know they dont have sugar in and also contain a bit of a balancer and prebiotics for the guts
 
Your two that are living out couldn't they just have a balancer so they get all the vitamins and minerals they need with a handfull of chaff? From your description of them last winter it doesnt sound like they would need much more than that.

The stressy one have you seen Top Spec Cool Balancer - its quite new but has stuff in it to keep them calm. I have one on it and he loves it. I am feeding him High Oil chaff to add some calories but sugarbeet would add calories too if you needed it.

I used to have terrible problems with my horse going off stuff, usually just when i had stocked up on it but Topspec he has been on for years and still loves it, he was also heated up by all the non heating foods but is fine on this :rolleyes:
 
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