Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Anything with a high starch and/or sugar content will make them hot. That would be many of your cereal grains (oats, corn, barley, etc.) If your horse can't keep weight with just hay and some alfalfa, adding a higher fat feed can help. I use Renew Gold, which is made with rice bran, flax, and coconut oil. You only have to feed 1 to 1 1/2lbs a day and it provides them with "cool" energy, so they'll look and feel good but won't get so hot. If you can't get Renew Gold in your area (or if your horse is like one of mine that absolutely refuses to eat it) a rice bran pellet is a good fat booster as well. As an example, here is what my horses eat:
Horse a.
1lb Renew Gold
1 lb Alfalfa Pellets
1 scoop beet pulp (soaked)
8-10 alfalfa/bermuda cubes (soaked)
Unlimited grass hay
Multi vitamin/mineral/joint supplement
Horse b.
1lb Max-e-Glo stabilized rice bran pellets
4lbs Alfalfa pellets
1 scoop rice bran (soaked)
8-10 alfalfa/bermuda cubes (soaked)
3 large feedings of grass hay
Multi vitamin/mineral/joint supplement
Horse a doesn't look so great because he's still overcoming some issues, but horse B is a sweet boy but VERY high strung. He's been on this diet for approx. 2 weeks (switched from Ultium) and he not only has kept his condition, he's actually looking better and his topline is improving (despite being layed up with an injury). I haven't seen a big change in his spookiness yet, but it takes time.
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