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cheap place to buy calm and condition?
My 4yro tb needs fattening up, he gets sugerbeet and normally calm and condition as he can't have anything 'heated' like baileys as he goes grumpy and mad!

just trying to keep costs low this time of year

xx
 
Calm and condition did nothing for my tb.. She now has hi fi, alphabeet and oil with ad lib hay and has never looked more 'round'... Stick to fibre and oil! Best thing for them. You could try micronized linseed which is good for condition, you can order it off efeed for £28 inc. next day delivery and it lasts months! :)
 
ImmyS said:
Calm and condition did nothing for my tb.. She now has hi fi, alphabeet and oil with ad lib hay and has never looked more 'round'... Stick to fibre and oil! Best thing for them. You could try micronized linseed which is good for condition, you can order it off efeed for £28 inc. next day delivery and it lasts months! :)
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Thank you - have you got any named recommendations of oils and fibre foods?
this won't send him bonkers will it?

xx
 
Oil is a great source of calories and so good for weight gain, it's also a form of slow release energy so shouldn't cause fizziness. Micronized linseed is very high in oil, but I use sunflower oil with my tb which seems to do the trick. I find dengie alphabeet is good also and shouldn't be heating either unless your horse is intolerant to alfalfa... Ad lib hay or haylage is always the best pace to start for weight gain though, so I would start there and build up. Have you got any pictures of you tb?
 
Do you just add the sun oil to the food? he is currently on alpha beet and I normally ad a scoop of calm and condition cubes to it. I stable him at weekends as I'm not on yard and put him in with loads of haylege and food.
I have 2 fat ponies that i try and keep away from food and a tb and a 38 yr old that need fattening up! awkward much?


Yes this is him
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He's 15.2 - some days he looks good like this ^^ but other days I can take photos and he's skinny! - HE is also only 4 so hoping when he's 5 he'll chunk up more.
 
I generally just add a 'glug' into each feed to keep things simple. It may be worth feeding some soaked grass nuts like graze on now the goodness is starting to leave the grass. When you say he is stabled at the weekend, do you mean like he is in all weekend or just at night? Could you not separate the horses having the fatties in one field and the tb and oldie in the other so that they can have ad lib hay?

He looks ok to me in the picture just lean and I personally would like to see him with a bit of grass belly! But I know what you mean, their weight seems to change day by day, my girls now 5 and a half and still changing shape a lot! Don't think she'll be fully matured for another year or two especially as she was a hatrack when we got her in march!
 
That's what I want is a nice grass belly! I feed them separately as we have a corral and I put them in there at feeding Time.
I stable him sat and sun night.
Ill look up 'graze' and substitute that for calm and condition?
Thankyou for advice been excellent! Xx
 
sounds good just remember.. fibre and oil! usually cheaper feeds aswell!

On a fibre and oil diet my tb has gone from this

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to this -

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good luck! :) x
 
I agree with above. Also is he getting enough hay? My TB is having 3 big haynets a day at the moment. Two at night in his stable and one in his field during the day plus he has grass in his field and he is eating it all. I find that it desn't matter how much hard feed you give them if they don't have enough hay they will never put on weight. Mine is looking almost porky on tons of decent hay! He's worked every day as well.
Also consider speedie beet or kwik beet (nonmollassed sugar beet), this is the main component in calm and condition. A bag costs £11 and should last you 2-3 months.
You could try mixing it with alfa or hifi (depending if he is ok on alfa or not, alfa is more calorific) and sunflower oil (no more than half a mug a day) then buy a big cheap no mollasses mineral block, the fatties can have use of the mineral block as well.
I really think the hay is key though although the feed will help :).
 
My TB has done really well on C&C in just over 3 months ... fed with just chaff or alfa a and veg oil ... twice a day but 1 1/2 large scoops of the C&C ... keeping him calm too - out during the day on decent grass and in at night with x2 haynets x
 
Victoria25 said:
My TB has done really well on C&C in just over 3 months ... fed with just chaff or alfa a and veg oil ... twice a day but 1 1/2 large scoops of the C&C ... keeping him calm too - out during the day on decent grass and in at night with x2 haynets x
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I'm going to keep doing alpha beet and C&C but i'm going increase hay and haylage I'm also going to add a gug of sunflower oil too xx
 
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