mirandaharry
Active Member
Just after some advice for feeding my boy. He's an irish x tb type (don't know breeding, sorry) who's about 7. My problem is that he's a nightmare to feed
!
Basically he's really hard to keep weight on, but whatever I feed him seems to make him as daft as a brush. I'd really like to find something that will keep the weight on him and give him useable energy!
Trouble is nowadays there is such a stupidly huge range of feeds and feed companies I feel totally confused (in the good old days it you just had sugar beet, pony nuts and hunter mix
!).
Anyway over last winter I tried Allen and Page Ride and Relax which wasn't exactly relaxing - we rodeoed our way through whole lesson
! Also tried a topspec cool cube, which didn't heat him up but he didn't gain weight at all.
Over the middle of the summer I didn't feed at all (except ad lib haylage) as I wasn't riding, but as we are approaching winter he's lost a load of weight. I've had teeth etc checked and all fine - it is just that he's a poor do-er!
At the moment I'm trying ad lib haylage, alfa oil and topspec balancer - and I know I sound completely useless
, but from the info on the packs I don't know whether that's giving him what he needs nutritionally.
Any ideas on what I can try feeding gratefully recieved! Any experiences of speedibeet? Also I would like to try and find something that takes him a bit longer to eat.
Many thanks x
Basically he's really hard to keep weight on, but whatever I feed him seems to make him as daft as a brush. I'd really like to find something that will keep the weight on him and give him useable energy!
Trouble is nowadays there is such a stupidly huge range of feeds and feed companies I feel totally confused (in the good old days it you just had sugar beet, pony nuts and hunter mix
Anyway over last winter I tried Allen and Page Ride and Relax which wasn't exactly relaxing - we rodeoed our way through whole lesson
Over the middle of the summer I didn't feed at all (except ad lib haylage) as I wasn't riding, but as we are approaching winter he's lost a load of weight. I've had teeth etc checked and all fine - it is just that he's a poor do-er!
At the moment I'm trying ad lib haylage, alfa oil and topspec balancer - and I know I sound completely useless
Any ideas on what I can try feeding gratefully recieved! Any experiences of speedibeet? Also I would like to try and find something that takes him a bit longer to eat.
Many thanks x