Just purchased a 3 year old. Mr Jess Perry/ Dash for Cash bred gelding.

Previous owners boarded him and weren't involved in his feed program. He is ribby and dull. Was being free fed alfalfa and that is all.

He is still being free fed alfalfa, but maybe finishes 1 and a half flakes each feeding and leaves the rest. What type of feed would be suggested for a young, growing horse, that won't make them hot?

Farrier suggest calf manna. I've always added Horse Guard "super weight gain", but its always been for hard keeping, older horses.

I will be worming him, have ulcer treatment on order, and also have an equine dentist scheduled to check him out.

Thank you.

I'd chose a sr feed to feed along with the alfalfa. It's easier on the gut and I've never had a sr feed make anyone hot. 

Soaked beet pulp will out weight and shine on one super fast, BUT I'm trying to determine if it gives one to much energy. My 3 year old High energy horse looks amazing on it with Renew GOld, but I'm thinking it makes him a little hot...

I've fed beet pulp to everything I've ever owned! I've never noticed it making one hot, but this is my first 3 year old. Ha! Thus far, he's refused to eat anything aside from hay.

When my daughter brought her filly home, she refused to eat any grain.. only wanted hay because that's all she had at the place before, she shared a pasture with cows. She bought the expensive growth feeds only to have to give it away or dump it because she refused to eat it. We tried all of them ... soaking adding alfalfa pellets etc etc... I finally gave her a little bit of sr feed because I was getting desperate and she was losing weight. Only thing she ate for the longest time was sr feed. She loves it. 

I put mine on Purina senior active when she came home.    She wintered in the Badlands and had some -50 degree temps to deal with.  She went from this to this in a month.