Which coarse mix do you feed your veteran?

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I've been feeding my girl Dodson and Horrell 16 plus for a few years, but recently she's been telling me it tastes different, and she isn't so keen on it.
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Has anyone else found their horse didn't like D & H feeds?

I'm thinking of changing her to Spillers - any comments?

Thanks.
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I dont feed my old boy a mix because i want to retain his teeth as long as possible and cereals arent very good for teeth! I feed him unmollassed sugar beet and soaked badminton conditioning nuggets with alfa a. He is 26 and looks very good on this, alongside living out on good grass. He has only started to have the conditioning nuggets this year beause he now needs a higher energy diet to keep the weight on. And he LOVES them!
 
not even tried using that mix so sorry cant help there, my old lady is fed cooked barley mollichaff original and speedibeet and oil she is looking great at the mo...this has always helped her in the past too...
 
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I dont feed my old boy a mix because i want to retain his teeth as long as possible and cereals arent very good for teeth! I feed him unmollassed sugar beet and soaked badminton conditioning nuggets with alfa a. He is 26 and looks very good on this, alongside living out on good grass. He has only started to have the conditioning nuggets this year beause he now needs a higher energy diet to keep the weight on. And he LOVES them!

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Ah, thanks - I'm not too worried about her teeth as her dentist offered to sign a statement aging her at 14yrs old (she's 21
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And she says 'Alfalfa is poison which can never cross my lips'
so I think the nugget idea may be out.
She likes Speedibeet though, so gets that.
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Spillers fibre cubes, soaked to a mash and over winter Bailey No1. Speedibeet and redigrass mix as hay replacer. This particular pony is over 30 and has very few teeth left but is as chubby and healthy as they come!
 
The nuggets dont have alfalfa in them , they are seperate! they are higher in energy than the 16+ though, so if you dont need that then you could either feed less (save £!) or they wont suit you.
 
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I'm thinking of changing her to Spillers - any comments?

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Spillers all the way
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It works wonder on my old girl
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(I used to use it for my other veteran too, before I lost him)
 
My 19yo doesn't get a mix at all - just Happy Hoof and Baileys LoCal with a splash of unmolassed beet. He looks pretty well on it. He lives out 24/7 and has ad lib hay in the winter.
 
Not quite a coarse mix but I use Allen & Page Weight Gain mix for my 22 year old. He looks great on it and loves it. I love the A & P feeds and use the Fast Fibre too which is also great for vits and minerals.
 
Funnily enough I was talking to a friend about that - her old mare has had D+H for YEARS and has suddenly gone off it. Haven't used it myself, although used to use Allen and Page Old Faithful - horse seemed to quite like it but went off it (fussy little brat that she is).

I was feeding Hi Fi Senior with Allen and Page Fast Fibre until last week when she decided she didn't like Fast Fibre (again, fussy little brat - see a recurring theme here??), so we're now trying the Hi Fi with Graze On (variation on Readigrass).

I tend not to feed her any concentrate feed as I've never found they make any difference to her weight or well being - in fact, she looked better than ever last year when I introduced the Fast Fibre (she was 26 at the time and put on weight in the depths of winter).
 
Well until recently I have always had old codgers.

Topsy - well back in the 70s we didn't have much so she got a basic mix and lived until 37 - but she was a Dartmoor so tough.

Anna - arab she too had basic mix (also 70s) and in winter we lovingly boiled barley and linseed as she got older to keep the weight on.

Breeze, my first TB, she liked 16+ and also the A&P Old Faithful mix. This was back in the early 90s. She didn't have much as she was a very good doer for a TB. She could have a tiny bit of sugarbeet as long as the chaff was just plain hay chop - feed molasses based stuff and it was 3 hours of non stop jogging - even at 29!

Delia also liked 16+ but being a skinny TB needed Spiilars conditioning cubes and Baileys No 1 a well. She did a lot better when I started feeding equimins pro-bio and I only needed mix after that. She too had sugarbeet and molassed chaff as you could feed her anything and her temperament never changed.

Cairo - I saw the light and now don't feed molassed products or mixes, just grass or lucrene based stuff, though do feed speedibeet, hence now using Simple Systems.

Prior to that he had molassed chaff and &DH pasture mix. I found feeding him speedibeet and lucrene chaff worked very well for him - had more energy and stamina on it.

Now I have two 5 year old pests and in 15 years time it will be interesting to see what feeds are available for the OAPs. That said these will eat anything that doesn't move quick enough - Farra is known as the hyena - fluffy, ginger splodged coat with a big front end and is known to scavenge.
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Stinky is far more refined at feed time.
 
My old lady gets soft and soak which seems to go down a treat, you can make it up hot for those cold winter nights (if you feel the need to pamper!) she isn't on that yet this winter, at the moment I'm feeding equilibrium senior which is apparently very tasty!
 
I use Spillers Senior Maintenance Mix for my veteran who is a good doer along with linseed oil and Molichaff Showshine. Combo seems to keep him in fab condition.
 
used to use 16+ mix, he went offthat now using FastFibre and Old Faithful + veteran molichaff but am changing the latter to HiFi Senior. Hes 30 + acts 3yrs old!
 
When I switched my old boy to D&H 16+ , it sent him loopy. He was a good doer right up until he died though and I only switched him as I was told it would help with his joints. (It didn't!) Switched back to cool mix and added a joint supplement instead.
 
I kept my old girl (chestnut in sig) at 20/21 on Spillers Cool Mix, with the Dengie Senior chaff - i'd always had difficulties in previous years keeping her weight up - but this really seemed to do the job.
 
My 20 year old is fed Happy Hoof and Lo-cal (mixes make her too over exciteable) and has Fibrebeet in winter.
The 26 year old gets 16 plus, Speedibeet and Alfa-A.
The 36 year old had Fibrebeet, Alfa-A and Old Faithfuls.
 
My Mum's veteran has been on Supa Barley rings which did the job till suddenly he got an allergic reaction to it!
He's now on Rowan Barbary ReadyMash (Soft n Soak range) and thriving on it - amazing shiny coat and great hooves.
Thoroughly recommend it if you can get it.
 
Can't help with what to feed your vetern, but co-incidentally a friend of mine with eat-anything-and-everything type cobs had suddenly turned their noses up at D&H cubes. SHe returned them to the manufacturer convinced there was something wrong with them!
 
My oldest (34yo TBxConn) looks brill on Fibrebeet, Allen & Page Calm & Condition and Top Spec Leisuretime. He doesn't have a problem with his teeth but does seem to enjoy his food sloppy...
 
Old Faithful by Allen and Page is excellent.
I used D&H always had, but recently many ppl have said horses have been turning their noses up to certain feeds.
Ive finally managed to go back to Allen and Page, and although my old boy was pts last month he switched back to A&P old faithful and he was uber happy
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