Weight gain feed but low sugar?

If fussy, try adding a little fenugreek. Mine has EMS and pyloric ulcers - try Thunderbrooks organic meadow nuts (only 2% sugar), with Thunderbrooks chaff, micronised linseed (a mug full per day). Can’t feed SB as she’s allergic to it. But she keeps her weight on fine. Also on ad-lib hay and hardly any grass. She’s 13.2hh.

She has Vit E, oily herbs, Boswelia and a gut balancer added all year round. 😊
 
SpeedyPony said:
What forage is she on? I found I could drop a the old boy's hard feed right down after swapping part of his haylage ration for alfalfa haylage in the winter. The horsehage alfalfa has a similar sugar and starch content to their high fibre (grass) haylage, but it is higher in protein and DE. Obviously that's no good if she can't have haylage full stop though!
Mine all found the alfalfa very palatable, despite it being quite stemmy.
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If you can get a bale of this to try I would try it.
Alfalfa is more readily eaten in haylege than it is in chop .
It’s an excellent forage for equines with higher energy needs .
You must of course introduce it gradually.
 
meleeka said:
Cushcare is excellent for weight gain. I ended up feeding a very small amount with some Fast Fibre as mine looked a little too well after a while.
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I'm having good results with cushcare with my 16.1 TB. I am feeding 1/2 stubb scoop per day with 1 scoop beet pulp. I would feed with fast fibre instead as well but I already have to pay extra for the cushcare. He could do with a lot more but he looks pretty good for him but the cushcare isnt cheap. He is actually dragging me and the yard staff everywhere so he obviously feels good on it. I am actually contemplating to stop soaking his hay so will probably try over the winter after any grass flushes.

Although the beet pulp mine is on is saracens, I otherwise wouldn't touch them at all apart from their EquiJewel which was brilliant for weight gain. Full of sugar and generally junk otherwise. Unfortunately it's all my yard feeds (well Dengie as well but mine cant have alfalfa and that is all they offer. Yes I am on a waitlist to move as I'm sick of it!!)
 
Thanks all. 🙂

Well I've been sneaking a little bit of cushcare in to her regular feed for a few days now and she's still eating it!

Ive also been tossing in some of the spearmint flavoured high fibre treats to hide the smell of the new feed.

Better still she's getting her appetite back, so fingers crossed everything is going in the right direction. 🤞
 
southerncomfort said:
InAny oil based product. Milled linseed, cool stance copra,vestigations are still ongoing regarding my little mini shetland's weight loss.

In the meantime, vet has suggested trying a weight gain feed that won't tip her over in to laminitis. He mentioned that Saracen do one (super high fibre cubes..?).

Are their any other feeds that would be suitable?
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Any oil based product.milled linseed, cool stance copra, rice bran, Optima. Ask your feed merchant or Google. They will all do the job, it's down to personal preference. Introdue slowly to the feed.
 
southerncomfort said:
Thanks all. 🙂

Well I've been sneaking a little bit of cushcare in to her regular feed for a few days now and she's still eating it!

Ive also been tossing in some of the spearmint flavoured high fibre treats to hide the smell of the new feed.

Better still she's getting her appetite back, so fingers crossed everything is going in the right direction. 🤞
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Good news 😀
 
I feed Honeychop Super Senior Chaff which is low starch, laminitis safe but is 11% protein. I don’t feed a lot of it at the moment and my boy is looking really well. It has little tiny nuts in it which have oil in them to help with condition and it also contains a glucosamine joint supplement and quite a few different herbs. My boy licks the bowl clean!!
 
Unfortunately, she's not convinced that any kind of chaff is edible.

She's a funny little thing. She'd never eaten anything out of a bowl before I got her and it took an age to convince her that it was food, not poison!
 
I havent read all the replies , but I found Allen & Page care & Gain works well for mine and he loves it They are great at sending out useful size samples too
 
Another vote for Cushcare which I see you’ve already started on so fingers crossed it’s a success! I also feed FibreBeet to my poor doer oldie, it’s low sugar & starch but conditioning and everything seems to love the taste of it. He actually seems to prefer it to the Cushcare as if I get the feed ratios wrong and do too much Cushcare versus FibreBeet he’s definitely less enthused about his feed.
 
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