What Feed?

[Lightning]

I just wanted to get some opinions and ideas of what to feed my horses this year who are all chalk and cheese to each other. I am waiting on some feed suggestions from the feed manufacturers but obviously they only recommend their own products and many of us use a mixture of brands.

Horse 1
3 year old warmblood, 16.1hh. Relatively a good doer. Has been on Bailey's stud balancer ad Outshine over the summer although last winter was fed stud nuts with Coolstance, speedibeet, bran and chaff and did well on it. I want to move her off the stud feed and put her onto a normal balancer or nuts maybe but not sure. She isn't in work yet and won't be until next spring.

Horse 2
2 year old warmblood. 16.1hh currently and can tend to lose weight over the winter and also when going through a growth spurt. He has grown quite big already so don't want him to grow excessively and have tried to keep his growing steady. He has been fed Bailey's stud balancer, outshine with Calphormin supplement over the summer. Last winter he was fed stud nuts with Coolstance, speedibeet, bran and chaff, calphormin

Horse 3
6 year old warmblood, 15.3hh. Currently in light work. Can be excitable but safe as well. Loses weight easy but can put it on just as quick if fed a conditioning type feed. Has been fed token nuts and chaff over the summer with outshine. Last winter he was fed H&P nuts, coolstance, speedibeet, bran and chaff.

Does anyone have any advice or recommendations as to what we can feed. I want to buy in the minimum of different types of bags of feed as storage is limited.

Or can anyone just let me know what they feed and for what sort of horse to help.

 

[claribella]

I think I would just stick with the speedi beet and coolstance and then add in something like pro balance or pink powder for vits and mins. For the horses that don't need as many calories then feed less coolstance and if you find that combination isn't enough for the horse that drops off thn try adding in some linseed and black sunflower seeds to even out the oils. I'm a firm believer in keeping it simple and as natural as possible.

I had my girl on fast fibre last winter which is pretty much the same as speedi beet and then I added micronised linseed dependant on weight. I did try cool stance but she didn't like it! Fussy thing she is.

She is currently on thunderbrook base mix which she is looking lovely on. I put her on this because I was buying in quite a lot of separate supp and the base mix had it all in along with the linseed. If she drops off in winter which she tends to then I will prob add some grass nuts and maybe fast fibre. Thunderbrook is worth a look. Lots of people are put off by the price but you hardly feed much and it lasts forever. Like I said it was cheaper for me to buy that than mag ox, pre nd pro biotic, etc etc.