sjp1
Well-Known Member
Just started barefoot in June due to a navicular diagnosis.
Am currently feeding Agrobs cobs and their muesli, along with Forageplus Laminae Plus balancer and additional copper and zinc - we are mega high in iron and manganese and molybendum.
However, horse on hunger strike with Agrobs - sooooo annoying as he really needs his minerals - I couldn't care less if he only ate hay if I didn't need him to eat his minerals!!
He went ballistic a couple of years ago on small amounts of the Spillers High Fibre Cubes - but they are total sugar and starch combined of 15% and he didn't like Fast Fibre and wasn't that calm on it and he didn't like unmollassed sugar beet.
Am wondering whether it was the starch and sugar in the Spillers - I think he is IR, so not keen on feeding high levels of starch and sugar, swapped him off the yard haylage recently onto older cut meadow hay as he was becoming a lot naughty on the haylage and he is an easy keeper - the yard haylage is lovely but he kept his weight altogether too well on that last winter, so its clearly too much for him.
So .......... I don't think he does that well on oatfeed and wheatfeed or unmollassed beet - the basis of Fast Fibre.
Am wondering about Rowan and Barbary Ready Fibre Mash. It is 5.5% starch and 2.5% sugar so no different really overall to the Agrobs - but it is soya hulls. Have never fed them.
Anyone feed it and get on with it?
Am currently feeding Agrobs cobs and their muesli, along with Forageplus Laminae Plus balancer and additional copper and zinc - we are mega high in iron and manganese and molybendum.
However, horse on hunger strike with Agrobs - sooooo annoying as he really needs his minerals - I couldn't care less if he only ate hay if I didn't need him to eat his minerals!!
He went ballistic a couple of years ago on small amounts of the Spillers High Fibre Cubes - but they are total sugar and starch combined of 15% and he didn't like Fast Fibre and wasn't that calm on it and he didn't like unmollassed sugar beet.
Am wondering whether it was the starch and sugar in the Spillers - I think he is IR, so not keen on feeding high levels of starch and sugar, swapped him off the yard haylage recently onto older cut meadow hay as he was becoming a lot naughty on the haylage and he is an easy keeper - the yard haylage is lovely but he kept his weight altogether too well on that last winter, so its clearly too much for him.
So .......... I don't think he does that well on oatfeed and wheatfeed or unmollassed beet - the basis of Fast Fibre.
Am wondering about Rowan and Barbary Ready Fibre Mash. It is 5.5% starch and 2.5% sugar so no different really overall to the Agrobs - but it is soya hulls. Have never fed them.
Anyone feed it and get on with it?
