Soaked oat diet

Chico Mio

Chico Mio

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Hello - I'm new here. I was searching for 'oats' on google and came across an older thread on here that mentioned something called 'the soaked oat diet' can anyone enlighten me please? Where I live oats are the most common form of feed, they're not crushed or rolled, just oats! Thanks.
 
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I use soaked oats (they are sold as bruised oats but look like whole oats) with alfalfa, speedibeet and Pink Powder and have been really happy with the results
 
Bruised oats are not the same as whole oats!its only whole oats that really have the magic...

basically whole oats soaked for 24 hours, drained, and fed with alfalfa and a little unmolassed sugar beet, cidear vineagar, linseed, and seaweed and rock salt.
 
I know many of the main brands do straights but of course they get less money than from selling mixes etc.. saracens, dodson and horrell do whole oats.Do you have a supplier for them? Can you not pester your local feed barn??!!
 
Hmm, one problem turns into another...

I live in rural Andalucia, where a horse OUTSIDE in a largeish paddock,wearing a fly rug can attract visitors from the other side of town to gawp. Horses are kept in stables, with little or no turnout or in a corral the size of a parking space. There is no grazing, no hay and horses eat straw, oats (or 'special mixes' done by the feed merchant that are all oat based and have things like beans and corn in them), alfalfa or avenata which is basically green cut oats in a bale. Purina feeds Equidina and Omolene are available at feed merchant and there are other proprietary mixes but they aren't cheap.

No problem with whole oats,

possibly the alfalfa (mine comes in bales like straw, WHEN it's available, which it isn't at the mo');

beet pulp - well, I've already been laughed out of the feed shop for asking about THAT;

SEAWEED???!! they'd call the guys in white coats to come and take me away

Cider vinegar, linseed and rock salt - no probs

Goes away to beat head against the wall...
 
I couldn't get whole oats from Saracen, only 'naked' which I assume is the oat without it's husk? (I know I should've read the bag!)

Anyway, have been feeding this for a couple of months, only about 1/4 wet scoop per feed and my normally whippet-thin girl (at this time of the year) is fat. Yahoo! FAT!

It's amazing. Normally, her feed alone costs me £60 per month, and that's not including hay.
 
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