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My young made has dropped too much weight over the winter. I gave her A&P Calm and Condition but it has blown her brains. So now looking for a different feed. Someone has suggested Ready Mash. Have anyone else used it and does It keep sharp ponies sane.
 
We use it. The ponies are all 25 and the two who are a normal weight are on the ready fibre mash (green) and the one that loses weight and is retired is on the ready mash extra (red). The ready fibre mash doesn't wind them up but the ready mash extra does if the other two get fed it by mistake.
 
The readymash extra did indeed blow my horses mind but he does get on ok with the solution mash. He's a very poor doer but this seems to help & it tempts him to eat as he's very fussy as well.
 
We give ready mash blue to our 20 yr old tb through winter and he's great on it. Everything else we tried made him explode but this really suits him.
 
I used ready mash red on our old pony. Really helped put weight back on, have now had to take him off it, never seen him look so well. Never had a problem with over heating, he's always been pretty lively!
 
My horse is hard to keep weight on this time of year, he won't eat more quantity and won't eat oil, doesn't like short chop and doesn't like unmollassed sugar beet. He has a stubbs scoop of spillers high fibre cubes soaked twice a day. He is 35 and has had a couple of tooth chips come off so I've been soaking the cubes since then. Forgot to say I'd tried him on the ready mash blue one I think and he wouldnt' eat it, he gobbled the sample, waited for me to buy a bag then decided he didn't like it really !!!

I recently (over xmas) looked into outshine (baileys) or equi jewel (saracen) after speaking to both manufacturers, I decided to go with the equi jewel, I fed half what they said first as I didn't want him to put on too much as he had lami good 5 years ago so I have to watch him.

It doesnt' add much bulk to the feed which is good and he eats it which is brilliant ! he looks great and his coat is loverly, he was shiny before but its hard to describe but it feels softer, he has a full clip, if you know fish he feels like a tench rather than a gold fish. Like velvet
 
Todmiester said:
My young made has dropped too much weight over the winter. I gave her A&P Calm and Condition but it has blown her brains. So now looking for a different feed. Someone has suggested Ready Mash. Have anyone else used it and does It keep sharp ponies sane.
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I used the ready mash extra on my 17.1hh WB gelding. It didn't give him any additional energy but it made him incredibly fat.
 
My horse is under weight and I found it hard to put weight on him he has plenty of hay and grass he’s been wormed had teeth so I don’t no what to do? He has pony nuts and conditioning fibre Apple cider finger for breakfast and dinner. Still nothing. He’s 5 and he’s a light weight 14h cob.

Please help
 
My horse is under weight and I found it hard to put weight on him he has plenty of hay and grass he’s been wormed had teeth so I don’t no what to do? He has pony nuts and conditioning fibre Apple cider finger for breakfast and dinner. Still nothing. He’s 5 and he’s a light weight 14h cob.

Please help
 
amyfurneaux said:
My horse is under weight and I found it hard to put weight on him he has plenty of hay and grass he’s been wormed had teeth so I don’t no what to do? He has pony nuts and conditioning fibre Apple cider finger for breakfast and dinner. Still nothing. He’s 5 and he’s a light weight 14h cob.

Please help
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I would start a new thread, asking advice specifically for your horse. This thread is 5 years old and readers won't necessarily scroll to the bottom to read a new question. Good luck, I hope you can get some good advice.
 
Does he have ad lib hay, and is it good quality? For a cob that should be adequate, anything in a bucket is just icing on the cake TBH. To gain weight he needs 2% of his body weight daily in GOOD quality fodder (and by good quality I mean June or early July cut, anything later than that will be lacking in seeds and therefore in protein). If your hay is from a single source you could do worse than have it analysed (ask Forageplus) for nutritional value as well as minerals, and then discuss with them what if anything is lacking.
I'm not a big believer in compound feeds, I regard them a bit like pre prepared food for humans, Check nutritional values and composition and consider straights like grass pellets, or micronised barley or naked oats If they don't make him fizz) and micronised linseed for the oils
 
JillA said:
Does he have ad lib hay, and is it good quality? For a cob that should be adequate, anything in a bucket is just icing on the cake TBH. To gain weight he needs 2% of his body weight daily in GOOD quality fodder (and by good quality I mean June or early July cut, anything later than that will be lacking in seeds and therefore in protein). If your hay is from a single source you could do worse than have it analysed (ask Forageplus) for nutritional value as well as minerals, and then discuss with them what if anything is lacking.
I'm not a big believer in compound feeds, I regard them a bit like pre prepared food for humans, Check nutritional values and composition and consider straights like grass pellets, or micronised barley or naked oats If they don't make him fizz) and micronised linseed for the oils
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Who ready marsh extra be good
 
amyfurneaux said:
Who ready marsh extra be good
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What is in it and how much protein.carbs/fibre etc (look on the bag or Rowan Barbery website) and decide whether that is enough and do you want your horse eating that. I know there are a few added extras such as garlic in some of their products which I wouldn't want to give my lot
 
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