Ginn
Well-Known Member
I have recently upped my mares workload (from hacking twice and schooling once a week to hacking 4-5 times and schooling/lessons/competing 1-2 times a week) and have noticed that while she is muscling up and getting fitter she has also dropped quite a bit of condition and when schooled gets tired mentally very quickly.
She is 3/4 tb and not a poor doer but not a good doer either but the biggest problem I face is that a lot of feeds give her way to much energy and she becomes a nightmare to handle!!
At the moment she gets a small scoop of Hoofkind chaff and a glug of oil.
I don't want to shovel loads of feed into her as I'd probably end up in hospital but feel she could do with more than she is getting so having done some reading wondered if Winergy is the way to go as I cannot give her cereal based or Dengie Alfalfa products as these seem to blow her brains and she becomes an absolute pig to handle.
Secondly, having looked at the Winergy range I am not sure whether from a condition point of view she would do better on Equilibrium Growth or Equilibrium Condition?? Condition has a higher starch content (5% vs 10%), a lower fibre content (14% vs 24% but she gets loads of fibre in her diet anyway) whereas protein and oil are the same (15% and 10% respectively). The vit and mineral levels are slightly higher in the growth aswell.
Any ideas?
She is 3/4 tb and not a poor doer but not a good doer either but the biggest problem I face is that a lot of feeds give her way to much energy and she becomes a nightmare to handle!!
At the moment she gets a small scoop of Hoofkind chaff and a glug of oil.
I don't want to shovel loads of feed into her as I'd probably end up in hospital but feel she could do with more than she is getting so having done some reading wondered if Winergy is the way to go as I cannot give her cereal based or Dengie Alfalfa products as these seem to blow her brains and she becomes an absolute pig to handle.
Secondly, having looked at the Winergy range I am not sure whether from a condition point of view she would do better on Equilibrium Growth or Equilibrium Condition?? Condition has a higher starch content (5% vs 10%), a lower fibre content (14% vs 24% but she gets loads of fibre in her diet anyway) whereas protein and oil are the same (15% and 10% respectively). The vit and mineral levels are slightly higher in the growth aswell.
Any ideas?