Soaked oat diet

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OK, need some advise on this one please. Is it suitable for a foal/weanling, or am I (foalie) best off sticking to diets already formulated for this age group?

Also, what about soaking Barley? I know that boiling barley/linseed used to be very popular, but can you feed soaked barley? And if so, what kind iof barley? I'm thinking for B here, not Hector!
 
I don't feed barley but I do feed soaked oats to all of my lot from a 5 month old filly right through to the 20 year old. They all look wonderful and I have had no issues with feeding it.
 
http://www.horsehage.co.uk/2005/BarleyPlus.html

Is that any help to you SN? That can be soaked into a mash,and I imagine fed with something like sugarbeet?

As for the soaked oats,if fed with Alfalfa,or a derivative of,plus a broad spectrum vit/min supplement I can't see why it would be unsuitable for H.I may be wrong though...so will just say that that's only my opinion
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Good point and one I keep forgetting Doh! Yes SN our hay has alfalfa in it and I also soak alfalfa cubes alongside my oats to feed to the horses.

Sorry, sorry - I never remember to mention the alfalfa as I have almost totally forgotten that on that side of the pond alfalfa is not a staple in hay supply.
 
What a FANTASTIC feed!!! Thank you for that - will have to see how much it is though, sounds like it might be rather expensive! Have just e-mailed them about it!!
 
Well B is already on 3 scoops of Alfa-A Oil a day and will be on Fibre Beet shortly too - the new Speedibeet stuff. Do reckon that would be OK?
 
It's about £7.00 a bag at my local feed merchants.....I guess it depends on how much you need to feed as to whether it works out expensive.But I do agree it looks pretty fab
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Oooo That isn't bad at all!! I was reading it thinking 'Yep, that'll be about £13 then'.

Right, so tomorrow I will get some of that - probably have to order it in.... My feed store think I'm mad anyway, as they are always having to order things in for me....... but then other people start buying them too
 
I must admit I was quite surprised at the price too.Also saves having to feed extra oil as it already contains Linseed anyway
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LMAO!!Oh the people at my feed merchants will hate me by the time Little Luke gets here. Of the things I want for him they only stock the Hi-Fi as a rule
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Wish I could get away with the soaked oat diet for him to be honest,but I think it'd be too rich for him
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She's already on a fair bit of oil! When H started growing like he'd eaten something from Alice In Wonderland, I took B off the Stud diet and changed it too the EPSM one - I didn't want him growing that quickly, but I wanted B to retain her condition! So she's on 700mls of oil atm - obviously with the Vit E/Selenium she needs to digest the oil!

LOL at your feed merchant - glad I'm not alone! When are getting the litte tyke?
 
Gah!!Don't get me started there!!The YO's informed me yesterday(been paying for the box for a fortnight now as I wanted to makevsure I got it!!) that they didn't want a "stallion" on the yard!?!WTF?He hasn't even got any balls yet....how the f*ck does that make him a stallion?
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Grrrrrr!!!!!!!

May well see about getting a pony on loan until such a time as my little fella has some nuts to snip off!No point paying for a stable I'm not using!F is being bloody good about it and is keeping him til he can be gelded.

You know the really sad thing is I miss him already,even though Ivwasn't due to get him til the end of October
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Damn right it's ludicrous.The only mare on the place is a flippin shire X......so even if he had any nuts he wouldn't have a hope in hell of impregnating it!!Gahhhhh!!!!!!!
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Well,seriously thinking about a loan pony for the interim period.Would be lovely for my daughter to have a pony to play with til the little fella gets here
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Hi SimplyNutty. Looks like you've sorted your feed out, but just in case this doesn't work.

Personally I wouldn't feed oats to youngsters (if I have other options) the calcium / phosphorus ratio is incorrect so is dangerous to feed to growing youngstock.

If not supplemented with calcium at the correct amount, the horse has to get his calcium from another source, generally their bones. Your lovely youngster could grow up with weak bones and problems will arise.

The feed you've been looking at has added limestone to balance the calcium phosphorus ratio so would be ideal.

Hope this helps.
 
I understand that the alfalfa is high and does balance the calcium.

But in my opinion I still wouldn't feed to a youngster.

An adult horse can mange to balance a small difference of calcium phosphorus without any damage, but a youngster cannot.

With regard to feeding a youngster, how can you be sure that you are supplementing the correct amount of calcium? Unless professionally calculated by a feed supplier I wouldn't be happy doing this myself.

But that is my opinion and is a suggestion only.
 
Thank you for that Sarah! I totally hear what you are saying and those were my exact misgivings about feeding H this diet!

That other feed looks fab though - have ordered it from my feed merchant
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OOooo how did you get a sample of the fibre beet Spans - did you ring up for one?

Those nuggets look FABBY eh
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lol - it's on order, may be in tomorrow, but most likely Thursday! Will let you know!! Thank you SO much for discovering this feed!!
 
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Oi! Cheeky monkey
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I would say not. It may be a cheap way to feed. But in the end has little of the nutritional requirements that he's going to need over the winter months. A good stud mix, or a combination of stud mix and pony nuts if you don't want to give too much mix, would certainly be my preference.

Oats are lacking in calcium as well as other things, all of which will go towards making your lovely little chap big and strong.
 
I think it totally depends on how much you research your feed. If you are happy to buy one pre-prepared which is a no-brainer because the feed company tells you exactly the percentages of everything within the feed then that is great. I, on the other hand, do not live in a country where we have these sorts of pre-prepared feeds hence we have to thoroughly research all pro's and con's with all of the natural feedstuffs.

Figuring out the calcium:phospherous ratio is really not difficult LOL! There are a tonne of websites which give you the exact information required.....or at least there is over here and you don't have to be that intelligent to easily work it out LOL!!
 
I have no idea what Fibre-beet is, sorry. However I thought that you were very against feeding sugar-beet in any form??
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I believe you put up a post about sugar beet not very long ago asking people's thoughts on it? Perhaps I am mistaken but I thought you said that you were of the opinion that it was a totally worthless feed to use?
 
The protein level in the Stud rations is usually very high.......which is not necessarily a good thing with a youngster who's growing very quickly.If I was going to choose a Stud feed I'd go for cubes over a mix as I believe they are eaier for a young horse to digest.
 
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