Soya meal? Feeding advice!

Teaboy

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I have a very lovely but quite hot horse. She’s also quite hormonal. All these things I don’t mind and recently I’ve purely been working on gaining condition and a good partnership, predominately hacking, easy schooling etc. She’s happy now, bit too happy at times but that’s ok. Anyway she’s just been on a generic conditioning cube (haven’t looked too much into the sugar and starch content - bad owner!), Alfa A oil and sugarbeet. Looking ahead to competing (when we are allowed) I know she will need a less heating feed as she is one who has endless energy and her brain can be fragile and easily overthinks but it would also never harm her to have a few more pounds on. I’m looking to replace the generic conditioning cube with something else and I had thought a soya bean meal like Connelly red mills would be a good fit, high fat, high protein, low energy but I’ve seen some people saying not a good feed for a hormonal mare?
Any advice and experiences welcome particularly from anyone with experiences with the soya bean meal.
 

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My experience us not common, but some horses are soya intolerant. On a high soya diet my TB lost weight and became increasingly difficult to ride. 48 hours off it he was fatter and his behaviour was almost back to normal.

I know this is uncommon, but watch out for it.
 

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Soya can send some horses absolutely nuts. Mines on pink mash which is soya hulls and I've never had an issue, but I know f quite a few who have been a nightmare on soya meal/oils/

Why don't you look at something like grass nuts and linseed?
 
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