I was hoping that some of you on here that have experience with competeing stallions would share your nutrition secrets to keeping your studs in good shape while competing and breeding.
We are having a tough time keeping the weight up on our stallion while he's in training and I know a good portion of the problem is it's just that time of year. He is a fence walker during breeding season so he's putting on a ton of miles pacing all day plus he's being worked to stay in shape for running.
He's able to be on grass a bit at the trainers but we've brought him home for a month to live cover our own mares (the funds just aren't there this year to AI our own herd) and we don't have the space to have him on grass here. He's in a dry pen during the day and then we've been stalling him at night. He's getting good alfalfa and on Safe Choice Perform.
My dude has stayed in great shape this year, weight wise. He's also been next to 'his' mares and on the go constantly. He's getting about 2 lbs carbcare performance with either a cup of rice bran or flax and a couple squirts of oil to stick it to the pellets, 5 lbs top quality alfalfa, and 15 pounds of very good timothy. His pasture has enough grass for him to nibble, but I doubt he's getting even 1000 calories from grass a day. I've had years when he's looked thin-ish by this point in the breeding season, but this year and this diet seems to be working. I haven't ridden quite as much as I might have, but it rained almost solid for the month of May out here. I'd just keep adding dense calories (fat) and be sure his hay is great quality and he's getting at least 20 pounds worth.
Posted 2016-06-02 12:18 AM Subject: RE: Performance Stallion Nutrition
CEFERG - 2016-06-01 4:15 PM
I was hoping that some of you on here that have experience with competeing stallions would share your nutrition secrets to keeping your studs in good shape while competing and breeding.
We are having a tough time keeping the weight up on our stallion while he's in training and I know a good portion of the problem is it's just that time of year. He is a fence walker during breeding season so he's putting on a ton of miles pacing all day plus he's being worked to stay in shape for running.
He's able to be on grass a bit at the trainers but we've brought him home for a month to live cover our own mares (the funds just aren't there this year to AI our own herd) and we don't have the space to have him on grass here. He's in a dry pen during the day and then we've been stalling him at night. He's getting good alfalfa and on Safe Choice Perform.
Put an already infoal mare in with him as company .... problem solved ..
and of course a small increase in the amount he is fed ..
once a horse shows weight loss it will take a month to get them back in prime
shape.
I would try so Muscle Mass. If its really hard to keep the weight on him because of the fence walking, I would leave him on the 2 scoops a day. Have you tried any calming? My horse would get really bad anxiety when we would leave for an event and she didn't get to come. She would pace back and forth. I put her on the calming powder daily and then the cookies in addition the powder when we were gone. I'm sure the office could make up a custom Muscle Mass version if you wanted it to address more than weight.
Yep Muscle Mass would give you the boost you need AND his coat will look like a million bucks. I really do need to get pictures of my show horse. He's very dark brown and so it's hard for the camera to really show his coat. He is so smooth he feels like satin. I don't put him under lights or try to shed him off until around April because our barns primary purpose is to calve heifers out , so when it storms he gets the boot. His diet is free choice grass hay, 2 flakes of alfalfa in a super slow feed hay net while he is kept in out of the sun most of the day and in the morning he gets about 1/2 coffee can of alfalfa pellets and one of beet pellets soaked to add his Muscle Mass to. I add hair & coat, ulcer prevent and GluChon as his blends in the Muscle Mass. He probably has the most simple diet and life of leisure as any show horse out there and still shines as well as the rest of them.
Performance Stallion Nutrition
