Suppliment Help Please!!

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OhCappaGino

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What suppliments do you feed yours?? Do you add them to your feeds or do you have them vitement blocks? Ive had to bring my boys of the fields now because of it being so muddy and ive put a bale of haylage in the yard so there on that and there stables open 2 come in and out as the please! The get a feed every evening of just quick beets, pony nuts and sweet medow mix. I know grass hasn't got much in it at the moment, but at least it was something along with haylage! They look fine and stuff, but i just wanted to know would you give something extra? And if you do, what do you give? They are both a 4 y/o WarmbloodXCob and 9 m/o IrishDraftXCob??
 
Mine gets:

Joint FX (joint supplement)
Linseed
Seaweed
Brewer's Yeast
MagOx

His only hard feed is a handful of High Fibre Nuts at breakfast time, when everything else is fed, and 1/4 scoop of Alfalfa at night to carry the supplements. Forage is generally soaked hay and our grazing is poor.
 
Whats the best one for keeping the weight on them?

Ive never done this, i only had a fat appolsa cob who could survive on a carrot a day! lol!
 
OhCappaGino said:
Whats the best one for keeping the weight on them?

Ive never done this, i only had a fat appolsa cob who could survive on a carrot a day! lol!
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I'm not sure that feeding just a supplement will put/keep weight on, you might want to look at changing your feed to something like sugar beet or barley if you need to put weight on. I have read that linseed can put weight on so maybe look at that. My horse is a very good doer and I found that D&H balancer made him fat and quickly - it has soya in IIRC.

Do your horses need more weight?
 
I dont mean as in putting weight on, i mean it in a way to keep balanced? If that makes sence? I can never express what i mean when typing, sounds different on net to when you say it in your head! Does that make sence?

No they dont need 2 put on weight, my 4 year old looking really good actually, the baby, feels a bit ribby, but you cant see them and nothing drasticly, i think its just him haveing a stretch, because hes got a good bum on him and hes upto date in been wormed
 
I have found Pink Powder good, not too expensive either. I have used it long term for a veteran to keep on condition and also a pony on a laminitc diet with very little grazing. You could give NAF or a similar company a call so they can recommend something suitable for your specific circumstances.
 
Normal for babies to be a bit ribby- don't worry too much.

I feed lo-cal balancer which is basically a cube with the total vitamin ration in it. my rising 3yo looks well on it. something like that would do your 4yo. or if you weren't keen on feeding a balancer, a general all-round vitamin would do.

for your IDx Cob, a good-doing type really, shouldn't need pumping up with youngstock mix or balancer- personally fed mine on a youngstock powder supplement with a token dinner (scoop of hifi)- extra calories weren't neccesary with him- he was on ad-lib haylage and doing very well on that.
 
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Thanks for all your replies! :)

Gino is my first baby and i love him very much, and as its his first year i want him to have the best start! I thort it was because of him growing (Cant go up and out at the same time) (Even though I did) hehe!!

Im with you on not pumping him up either, just wanted something to have because of just being on haylage at the moment! Loads of people seem to be in favour of this pink powder!

Is that a good thing for a baby? Has anyone had them Vittement blocks?
 
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