Coffee_Bean
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Are oats or barley likely to fizz horses up??
Sorry for all the posts- are oats and barley heating?
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Shilasdair
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They can be. Oat are supposedly more heating than barley, which is meant to be fattening instead. I find horses react differently to feeds; some are badly affected, some not.
What is the context?
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What is the context?
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Coffee_Bean
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I'm thick, what does context mean
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scotsmare
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What are you trying to feed for / what type is your horse?
Shilasdair
Patting her thylacine
Oh, sorry, I just meant why are you asking - what horses do you intend to feed oats/barley to?
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ihatework
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I wish all the barley that I am shovelling into my horse was making him fat and fizzy!!
But in answer to your question, it really depends on the horse
But in answer to your question, it really depends on the horse
Coffee_Bean
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Just because I'm looking at feeds to keep condition and weight on over winter, and DH Barley rings and Dengie naked oats both have quite high energy content, but I would be worried about them fizzing her up. Shes a 15hh trakehner X lightweight mare, prone to stress (lol) and losing weight. Oh and she'll be living out all winter.
scotsmare
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Would be better if you could try and find something fibre based then rather than cereal based? That said, if she's out all the time is she likely to get fizzy?
Shilasdair
Patting her thylacine
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Just because I'm looking at feeds to keep condition and weight on over winter, and DH Barley rings and Dengie naked oats both have quite high energy content, but I would be worried about them fizzing her up. Shes a 15hh trakehner X lightweight mare, prone to stress (lol) and losing weight. Oh and she'll be living out all winter.
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My three live out. I find it more effective to give them good quality forage, as much hay as they will eat, and some haylage.
Unmolassed sugar beet is also good as it counts as a forage, being full of cellulose. If I were you, I'd probably not feed your girl naked oats, but you could try a conditioning mix.
Have you tried phoning the feed companies; they will give you free rationing advice? I have found D & H in particular very helpful.
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Just because I'm looking at feeds to keep condition and weight on over winter, and DH Barley rings and Dengie naked oats both have quite high energy content, but I would be worried about them fizzing her up. Shes a 15hh trakehner X lightweight mare, prone to stress (lol) and losing weight. Oh and she'll be living out all winter.
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My three live out. I find it more effective to give them good quality forage, as much hay as they will eat, and some haylage.
Unmolassed sugar beet is also good as it counts as a forage, being full of cellulose. If I were you, I'd probably not feed your girl naked oats, but you could try a conditioning mix.
Have you tried phoning the feed companies; they will give you free rationing advice? I have found D & H in particular very helpful.
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Coffee_Bean
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Yeh I've got the energy rates in about 200 different mixes to compare haha. Was just thinking about giving her those as an extra, and she will have hay in her field each day, they have a bale a day to share between 3 and atm they are in a huge field too.
Parkranger
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ummm I wouldn't feed straight barley or oats to my two - I'd die!
That said Ty is great on showmix - very fattening and not to heating!
That said Ty is great on showmix - very fattening and not to heating!
Silverspring
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I love barley rings to keep the weight on, it's quite depressing but I've already started feeding it due to the bad weather
I was always told naked oats was race horse feed and it would make even the calmest horse go crazy. My friend then started feeding it by the scoop load to her clysdale cross, turned out it didn't make him even remotely crazy
I would risk my Arab on it though, molassed sugar beet tips her over the edge of sanity!
I was always told naked oats was race horse feed and it would make even the calmest horse go crazy. My friend then started feeding it by the scoop load to her clysdale cross, turned out it didn't make him even remotely crazy
I would risk my Arab on it though, molassed sugar beet tips her over the edge of sanity!
Shilasdair
Patting her thylacine
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Yeh I've got the energy rates in about 200 different mixes to compare haha. Was just thinking about giving her those as an extra, and she will have hay in her field each day, they have a bale a day to share between 3 and atm they are in a huge field too.
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Actually, I don't think a bale a day between three is very much (obviously depending on the size of bale, and size of horse). My three eat more than that in hay at the moment...with additional haylage, and there is still grass.
They are all around 16hh though.
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Yeh I've got the energy rates in about 200 different mixes to compare haha. Was just thinking about giving her those as an extra, and she will have hay in her field each day, they have a bale a day to share between 3 and atm they are in a huge field too.
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Actually, I don't think a bale a day between three is very much (obviously depending on the size of bale, and size of horse). My three eat more than that in hay at the moment...with additional haylage, and there is still grass.
They are all around 16hh though.
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Parkranger
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When I got my first horse (an american saddlebred) we fed him straight oats and couldn't understand why we had to scrape him off the ceiling.
kickandshout
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I feed my warmblood a full scoop of naked oats a day as well as other stuff.
and i still have to boot him
fizz ??? what fizz ???
and i still have to boot him
fizz ??? what fizz ???
Tia
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I personally love whole oats. They are a good feed source in my opinion. Oats contain the highest amount of fibre compared to any other cereal. Yes oats have energy however I think if you do some research it is something like 60% of the energy is utilised as heat, therefore a great feed for winter time. Every horse on my property is fed oats; Tbs, Arabs, QHs, WBs etc, and none of them are fizzy; however I have fed oats in the past to one horse who did definitely get a bit "hotted up" on them.
I don't feed barley.
I don't feed barley.