Birker2020
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To cut a long story short my 17yr old WB is on Spillers Instant Energy Mix and Good Doer Chaff as well as Magic supplement (was a very spooky horse before moving yards, and glucosamine for his joints).
I give the comp mix to give him stamina rather than fizz and its ideal for him as he is quite a laid back chap. We only compete every other week, sometimes every third week now and it seems like a lot of feed for just the one day that I need it.
At Your Horse Live I was informed my Dengie that I was underfeeding my horse his vitamin and mineral supplements. I had been feeding pink powder as he'd always been a very colicky horse but since moving has only had one attack and because the Magic calmer had prebiotic in it anyway gave up the Pink Powder in the end. She is probably right, he is lacking vitamins now I don't feed pink powder, I just assumed the Magic had enough of everything in it to allow for the lack of Pink Powder, which of course was a feed balancer in itself.
So on her suggestion (and because her mate worked there) I toddled off to the Top Spec stand where it was suggested that I feed him a balancer (seems every feed manufacturer wants to sell this product). However the way it was explained to me did make sense. Whislt there I told the nutritionist about the Instant Energy mix I give my box to give him a little stamina as he used to literally doze in between jumping classes whilst tied up to the trailer!
Since being on the Instant Energy mix he's been fine and has loads more energy (although you could contribute this to his increased fitness levels too and the fact he is a really nice healthy weight now having moved from a very rich ex dairy farm grazing to a lovely yard with less rich grass).
She suggested feeding a handful of 'Top Spec Turbo' about an hour and a half before a lesson/competition and this would have the desired effect. Just wondered if this was actually feasible. I thought that with a competition mix you fed according to work done and that it had an accumulative effect, i.e you couldn't just bung it in your horse the day before and expect to see a difference!
Do you feed Turbo to your horse? If so how much and when? Is it an hour before? Or do you keep your horse on it daily?
Please help as really confused with this subject. I am also a little nervous in case I send said horse into a total fruit loop.
I give the comp mix to give him stamina rather than fizz and its ideal for him as he is quite a laid back chap. We only compete every other week, sometimes every third week now and it seems like a lot of feed for just the one day that I need it.
At Your Horse Live I was informed my Dengie that I was underfeeding my horse his vitamin and mineral supplements. I had been feeding pink powder as he'd always been a very colicky horse but since moving has only had one attack and because the Magic calmer had prebiotic in it anyway gave up the Pink Powder in the end. She is probably right, he is lacking vitamins now I don't feed pink powder, I just assumed the Magic had enough of everything in it to allow for the lack of Pink Powder, which of course was a feed balancer in itself.
So on her suggestion (and because her mate worked there) I toddled off to the Top Spec stand where it was suggested that I feed him a balancer (seems every feed manufacturer wants to sell this product). However the way it was explained to me did make sense. Whislt there I told the nutritionist about the Instant Energy mix I give my box to give him a little stamina as he used to literally doze in between jumping classes whilst tied up to the trailer!
Since being on the Instant Energy mix he's been fine and has loads more energy (although you could contribute this to his increased fitness levels too and the fact he is a really nice healthy weight now having moved from a very rich ex dairy farm grazing to a lovely yard with less rich grass).
She suggested feeding a handful of 'Top Spec Turbo' about an hour and a half before a lesson/competition and this would have the desired effect. Just wondered if this was actually feasible. I thought that with a competition mix you fed according to work done and that it had an accumulative effect, i.e you couldn't just bung it in your horse the day before and expect to see a difference!
Do you feed Turbo to your horse? If so how much and when? Is it an hour before? Or do you keep your horse on it daily?
Please help as really confused with this subject. I am also a little nervous in case I send said horse into a total fruit loop.
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we now work more on schooling to wake him up and I must say it has improved him no end. To improve your horses' stamina I would just work on getting him as fit as physically possible.