What oil do you feed?

I would only feed oil for horses from the feed store but plenty of people feed oil from the supermarket. My horse gets the KM Elite Ultimate Oil (http://www.kmeliteproducts.co.uk/km-elite-health-range/km-elite-ultimate-oils-1ltr) - it isn't cheap but I can honestly say he has never looked better and everyone on the yard is commenting on how shiny he looks. He isn't clipped and honestly gleaming. I'm hoping that it will help his sensitive skin in the spring as well; I personally wouldn't feed any other type of oil now I've seen the effect of the KM Elite one.
 
only feed cold pressed if its liquid but it does not matter to me where its bought from. normally I would use micronised linseed though
 
Bit of a feed dunce here - what benefits do you find from feeding different oils?

I've always had good doers that have survived on nothing much more than decent quality forage!
 
Tash88 said:
I would only feed oil for horses from the feed store but plenty of people feed oil from the supermarket. My horse gets the KM Elite Ultimate Oil (http://www.kmeliteproducts.co.uk/km-elite-health-range/km-elite-ultimate-oils-1ltr) - it isn't cheap but I can honestly say he has never looked better and everyone on the yard is commenting on how shiny he looks. He isn't clipped and honestly gleaming. I'm hoping that it will help his sensitive skin in the spring as well; I personally wouldn't feed any other type of oil now I've seen the effect of the KM Elite one.
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What's in it? Does it heat him up?
 
I feed Copra and find the results excellent and it is very cost effective too

Ponies both look awesome at the moment even the grey one gleams
 
Slightlyconfused said:
What's in it? Does it heat him up?
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I haven't found it heating at all, and he is quite sharp so usually I would notice! It is a combination of oils (coconut on the packaging so must include coconut oil) and they are blended together to create the optimum blend of omega acids.

From the website: Ultimate Oil is a blend of high quality oils providing more than 190 bioactive nutrients including healthy ratios of Omegas 3, 6, 9 and rare Omega 7 - nourishing the body with essential fatty acids, minerals, plant sterols, antioxidants, amino acids, anti-viral and antibacterial nutrients and vitamins including Vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, B15, C, E, K.


The ingredients are shown below - the first being the highest content and the last being the lowest:


Cold Pressed Flaxseed Oil

Rice Bran Oil

Coconut Oil

Sea Buckthorn Oil
 
I can't - horse is prone to Colitis so oil is not a good move.

I used to just use Sunflower oil from the supermarket if I needed to feed oil. Its all the same really ;)
 
Don't currently need to feed oils to anyone, but when I did (rescued horses) it was corn or safflower from the supermarket. If I ever have another starved one to feed up I think I may try linseed mash or micronized and see how that compares. For adding calories it really doesn't matter which oil you use, and as for fancy "equine" oil blends.....just a way of getting more of your money :-)
 
Tash88 said:
I haven't found it heating at all, and he is quite sharp so usually I would notice! It is a combination of oils (coconut on the packaging so must include coconut oil) and they are blended together to create the optimum blend of omega acids.

From the website: Ultimate Oil is a blend of high quality oils providing more than 190 bioactive nutrients including healthy ratios of Omegas 3, 6, 9 and rare Omega 7 - nourishing the body with essential fatty acids, minerals, plant sterols, antioxidants, amino acids, anti-viral and antibacterial nutrients and vitamins including Vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, B15, C, E, K.


The ingredients are shown below - the first being the highest content and the last being the lowest:


Cold Pressed Flaxseed Oil

Rice Bran Oil

Coconut Oil

Sea Buckthorn Oil
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Ah he is allergic to rice, Soybean, Oats and corn and any byproducts so that would be a no then
 
I feed Carron oil, it's mostly cold pressed linseed and some calcium hydroxide & essential fatty acids.

Gives a great shine and good quality coat :)
 
used to use linseed oil and bough a giant bottle as cheaper, but now use micronised linseed- power is much less messy and horses all love it. plus I can buy it in a cheap 15kg sack
 
Micronised linseed, no oil. I used linseed oil and vegetable oil before on my tb though. Half n half, so made the 9.99 linseed oil last a weeee bit longer..
 
Does nobody look into the omega 3,6 within the oils they feed then?
I would never ever use cheap supermarket oil its just omega 6 which is a pro inflamatry which really won't do much good esp if your horse has joint problems or such like.
Linseed is by far the best source of good anti inflamatry omega 3 and all my oldies have no signs of stiffness at all even the one who couldn't break out of walk, canters around the field now. Would never put high omega 6 products into any horse.
 
thatsmygirl said:
Does nobody look into the omega 3,6 within the oils they feed then?
I would never ever use cheap supermarket oil its just omega 6 which is a pro inflamatry which really won't do much good esp if your horse has joint problems or such like.
Linseed is by far the best source of good anti inflamatry omega 3 and all my oldies have no signs of stiffness at all even the one who couldn't break out of walk, canters around the field now. Would never put high omega 6 products into any horse.
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I had never heard of omega 3 until a few years ago! I sold the horse i fed the oil to before i knew about it lol. Micronised linseed for my horse now all the way.
 
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