What does everyone feed their TB's and old lami ponies please?

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Ok, thought I'd get two pieces of advise in one!!

I have a 16.1hh TB, 11 years old, been out of training for 6 months, back in work for 5 weeks since holiday. He is currently on C&C and molichop, eats it well and is looking good. However, he is getting sharper everyday and am wondering if it could be the C&C doing its worst? So just wondering what everyone feeds their TB's over the winter to maintain condition and sense. He will be hunting hopefully.

Also, have been lent a 24 year old welsh section A pony for my little girl. He has cushings has is on pergolide but seems to loose condition very easily so am rather worried about the winter. What does everyone feed their ponies that could be lami prone but don't hold condition.
 
Hi - not sure if it would be good for a laminitic pony but for our elderly polo pony we've found A&P's Old Faithful is really good for keeping the condition on him over the winter. He really likes it too - he's not got the best teeth and he finds it really easy to eat as its quite small!
 
I have a TB and I feed a mix of chestnut feeds alpha easy and high fibre coarse mix with sugar beet and micronised linseed. He also gets nupafeed staying power as a supplement. He looks fab on it and I don't find it sends him silly but he is sharp- which I like! He is in reasonably hard work- competing affiliated medium dressage.
 
TB - I would feed fast fibre, linseed and advance complete. My lad kept weight on really well with this plus its low sugar/starch. Calm and condition does state on its website to get the most out of the feed it must not be feed with Alfa a, molasses or barley. Mollichaff is in my mind a crap feed and is just straw covered in sugar ( molasses) not good and can produce a sugar rush like feeding kids sweets.

Cushings pony - keep all cereal, molasses and high sugar/starch feed well away from him. Same feed as above will be idea and add more or less linseed going by his weight.

Equimins advance complete is a fab balancer which is linseed base and not full of cheap fillers. It's a great spec and comes with a full money back guarantee if it doesn't put condition on.
 
In our experience, C&C is virtually useless. Mum says C&C and mollichop would send all of ours loopy- sugar, sugar and starch! We feed ERS pellets, alpha A, micronised linseed and then alpha beet for fattening or fast fibre for bulking.

We won a lot of Fibre Beet and it's really good, really rate that. And also Bailey's Performance Balancer...
 
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I've used C&C on my TB when I first got her. Pile of rubbish. Didn't put any condition on her whatsoever! Things that have have been good with with her, are Fast Fibre (not great for fussy eaters though!), Pure Easy from the Pure Feeds Company and we're now on Spillers high fibre cubes. I don't feed much hard feed - just enough to get her hoof balancer and joint supplement in - I prefer to feed ad lib forage and minimal hard feed.
 
I tried to feed my TB fast fibre like my old cushings lady with top chop lite added but he wouldn't eat it! So I've swapped him to baileys no4 with linseed added.
 
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