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| I Have a 20 year old OTTB and she has weight on her but I want her to gain some more. I have her on SuperGain by Horse Guard at the moment but I have been looking at CocoSoya and Cool Calories. Have you had any experience with any of these? Do you have any better suggestions? I want to stay $30 and under for these products. TIA |
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Location: South Georgia | Cool Calories is the bomb. I have used it in the past and it is really popular with halter people. It is 99% fat and is dehydrated vegetable oil. No mess. Cheap. Flavorless. A bag lasts a while. I think it's the most bang for the buck. And you don't have to feed multiple scoops a day like you do with some of the other weight supplements. |
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| What is she getting for forage? If you can offer constant access to good free choice grass hay, that’s best in my opinion. I’ve used a variety of things, but keeping hay in front of them seems to work best. I also like something that will make sure the gut is working well, like a Forco.
And remember - they can only gain so much so fast. Consistent progress. If it’s getting chilly when you’re at you can blanket to take some of the work of staying warm out of the equation, that burns a lot of calories.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | NorwegienPower - 2018-10-30 12:49 PM I Have a 20 year old OTTB and she has weight on her but I want her to gain some more. I have her on SuperGain by Horse Guard at the moment but I have been looking at CocoSoya and Cool Calories. Have you had any experience with any of these? Do you have any better suggestions? I want to stay $30 and under for these products. TIA
How long has been since you had her teeth done/checked? |
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| At the moment she is not able to get free choice hay and is on, to be honest, crappy grass. We will be moving out of there in a month but in the mean time I need something to help her. She is blanketed and she is only ridden 3 times a week. She hasn't been gaining weight since on the SuperGain. She has probably gained maybe 3/4 pounds and has been on it for 4 months. Also, her teeth were checked 2 months ago. |
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Location: my piece of paradise | I agree forage may be the root of the problem. Any way you can throw her an extra flake of hay twice a day? Alfalfa is great for putting weight on one as well. |
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| I am able to get up there and give her additional hay about 4/5 days a week. She gets to eat for about 2 hours and goes through half a bale when I let her eat. At my current boarding situation, they do not have alfalfa. This is part of the reason I will be moving next month. |
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Location: North Dakota | alfalfa pellets/cubes to supplement the crappy hay and I like rice bran better than those mentioned above. Cool calories is good but its vegetable oil. If you feed the max E glo stabilized rice bran there's more "good" things. (fiber vitamins etc) Generally if a horse gets thin, they just need more. More hay, more feed. What is the concentrate you're feeding? Be sure you're feeding the amount you should be of it before throwing a bunch of other things at them and of course, teeth and deworming first if that has not been addressed. (I'm the cheapest of cheap skates) |
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Location: the end of the rainbow | My 28 yr old mare has always been a picky eater and lost quite a bit of weight while out of my care. She bouced back really well on about a pound & a half a day of renew gold and alfalfa pellets. She won't eat enough hay to get the amount of forage she needs but she will chow down on the alfalfa pellets fairly well.
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Location: Illinois | Alfalfa pellets/cubes would be good for nutritional supplementation for the forage. You could feed the pellets dry if you don't want to soak cubes. I soak both though, I've had one choke on the dry pellets. I also love rice bran based fat boosters, Nutrena Boost is my favorite. It's $34 a bag, but it lasts a month. I just feed 1 cup a day & they bloom quickly. My 4 year old appendix gets a screw loose if I feed her more than about 2lbs of grain a day no matter what kind, so I give her 1/2 cup morning & night and it covers what I need. I'd try to address something forage wise first, even if it's just sneaking in a few extra flakes. And maybe try the rice bran option, the Max E Glo works fairly well too, I just had to sue more of it than I do the Boost. Type of grain plays a big factor as well. I was giving my mare 5lbs of a 12% fat, 14% protein feed and she was ribby & had the triangle shaped butt. I switched to another brand that's 8% fat and 14% protein and she's eating 2lbs and has gained a ton. Your horse might just not respond well to the particular feed either.
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