Toodledo
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Hi all, grateful for any feeding advice.
I have a 17 year tb x that I've had since he was 10. I've never had to give him hard feed, he's always wintered very well on ad lib Hay and a balancer.
We've moved this year to a new yard as our old one retired (sold off for houses 😔). The yard is great, lovely people, school, riding etc. He's on a good part livery, all included except hard feed.
But, they don't allow Hay in the fields. I understand why on a bigger yard but my boy has really dropped off - and it's not even winter yet. I'm now feeding him two feeds a day of conditioning cubes with chaff and balancer but he's still dropping a bit. Not rspca thin but certainly not what he should be. I've even had the vet out to check him and theyve given the all clear.
Which is nice but I think its just lack of food, vet agreed. It was a very hot summer of course so the grass just didn't grow and now here we are going into winter. I could ask if he could come in but! As most of yard is still out plus he can be a stress head in the stable I don't really want to do that - especially as they will be in soon anyway.
Everyone else on the yard looks okay but they're all either fat cobs that live on air or competition horses having expensive food poured into them.
Can you give me your feeding for weight gain - but not fizziness tips please! He does get super dumb quite easily (I blame the tb half 😆). Plus also not being too expensive if poss 😬
I can go up to three feeds a day of the topspec but then that's a lot of back and forth that I was hoping to avoid. He's on max ration per feed so can't put extra in the two. I was thinking of adding linseed?
I've never had to feed for weight gain so this is all new to me!
I have a 17 year tb x that I've had since he was 10. I've never had to give him hard feed, he's always wintered very well on ad lib Hay and a balancer.
We've moved this year to a new yard as our old one retired (sold off for houses 😔). The yard is great, lovely people, school, riding etc. He's on a good part livery, all included except hard feed.
But, they don't allow Hay in the fields. I understand why on a bigger yard but my boy has really dropped off - and it's not even winter yet. I'm now feeding him two feeds a day of conditioning cubes with chaff and balancer but he's still dropping a bit. Not rspca thin but certainly not what he should be. I've even had the vet out to check him and theyve given the all clear.
Which is nice but I think its just lack of food, vet agreed. It was a very hot summer of course so the grass just didn't grow and now here we are going into winter. I could ask if he could come in but! As most of yard is still out plus he can be a stress head in the stable I don't really want to do that - especially as they will be in soon anyway.
Everyone else on the yard looks okay but they're all either fat cobs that live on air or competition horses having expensive food poured into them.
Can you give me your feeding for weight gain - but not fizziness tips please! He does get super dumb quite easily (I blame the tb half 😆). Plus also not being too expensive if poss 😬
I can go up to three feeds a day of the topspec but then that's a lot of back and forth that I was hoping to avoid. He's on max ration per feed so can't put extra in the two. I was thinking of adding linseed?
I've never had to feed for weight gain so this is all new to me!