Weight gain welsh part bred arab

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simba**

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Hi
After abit of advice.
We have a 12.2hh welsh part bred Arab who struggles to put on weight. Over a month ago we changed his feed to dodson horrell build and glow, a chaff and a balancer and he had put some weight on but it's very slow. People have recommended either rowans ready mash extra or equerry conditioning mash. I don't want something that will heat him up therefore I don't know what to go for. Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
How old is he?
My Welsh PBA gelding as a youngster from up to 6 yrs old would drop weight easier in the winter than the older mare PBA.
He’d have to have more nutritious hay than the mare (happened to start using mixed grass haylage then) and give extra bowl feed of beetpulp with balancer nuts/powder.

Substandard quality hay made them both worse, which showed more in winter when grazing was minimal. Getting the best quality forage for them both increased their health in so many ways because mycotoxicosis gut issues from moulds on hay was vastly reduced.
 
As lib forage if he isn't getting it already, if he's on hay you could also try swapping to haylage.
You can also add in vegetable oil for extra calories.
 
If he's happy eating the haylage and you can increase the percentage of it in his diet, the extra forage intake should go a long way to getting weight back on him.
It's awkward when they're out with a good doer- can you separate them for part of the day, or up the mare's work to compensate?
 
Have you had his teeth done recently?
Is it possible to make a corner with a rail he can get under but the cob can't, and feed hay in there.
 
simba** said:
It difficult to put him out with haylage as my mare (cob) is in there with him too
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I had that too with mine years ago, she needed less than him - I separated them for periods so he’d have the chance to eat as much as he wanted. They still had access to each other just not to each others food.
Since age 10 their needs nutritionally have evened out to be roughly the same, no separation needed.
 
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