Which would be best?

gillianclaude

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I'm feeding Claude through summer, just to bulk him up a bit as hes a typical TB, but giving him a bit extra just now until the grass really comes through here. Still getting hay 24/7 in field too.

He's currently fed:

Morning - 1.5 scoop Alfa A Oil
1.5 scoop Dodson + Horrel Conditioning/Build up mix
1.5 scoop (soaaked) Rowan Barbury Readymash Extra (http://feeds.centralsaddlery.co.uk/p...dy-mash-extra/)
Half a mug of veg oil

Night - 2.5 scoop of everything + pink powder + oil

Do you think I should carry on using the readymash, or swap to sugarbeet/speedibeet? I've read that alot of people use this and it has good results, but I'm not sure? What do you all think? You can recommend any other feeds too if you dont think this sounds a good mix..

Thanks :)
 
To be honest with you I think you are feeding him too much in one go. Horses can only digest so much and the rest goes straight through them. My 17.2hh TB got 2.5scoops in per meal- 1sc Alfa A, 1sc Conditioning Flakes and 1/2sc sugar beet - 4 times a day. Little and often is better than feeding one or two big feeds a day.
 
I'm not a hard feed expert but agree simulating trickle feeding (grazing) makes sense.

Could you swap him to hay ledge as it has more concentrated nutritional value than hay?
 
Coprafeed cool-stance piled weight on my lad loads as he came out of winter looking a bit too lean for my liking, even though he was on vast quantities of 'normal' hard feed...he's now out on new pasture up his knees after going through a bag of Copra and is looking overly conditioned almost!

Took him a day or two to get used to it, turned his nose up at it the first time, but then started woofing it down. Lasts longer than a normal bag of feed and cheaper in the long term I found! I added mollasses to it just because he loves them and made him eat it, but also found adding chaff works just as well to get them eating it to start with :)
 
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