|
|
| I'm looking for feed suggestions for a 13 year old appendix bred mare. She gets medium use as a riding and barrel horse. She is built like your typical Thoroughbred and hard to keep weight on. I'm used to cowbred Quarter Horses who are easy keepers, so not sure if there is a better suited feed to have her on for muscle/weight. She's healthy, on a regular deworming schedule, teeth are wonderful, no issues at all, etc.
Thank you in advance! |
|
| |
|
  Neat Freak
Posts: 11216
  
Location: Wonderful Wyoming | THE Muscle Mass should really help fill her out, topline and most other places too. There are a ton of people on this board that feed it including me. It's full of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. All healthy, natural ingredients and you can have it specialized just for her-joint, ulcer, breather, allergy, hoof, moody mare, calming, focus etc etc. $75.95 for 2 1/2 months worth and 2 blends added. You just feed 1 small scoop a day. |
|
| |
|
 Not Afraid to Work
Posts: 4717
 
| I have a gelding similar to yours... appendix, built very lean. I feed strategy morning and night with 3 flakes mix morning and night w/grass. I tried many many weight supplements during the summer of the past few years and FORCO has made an incredible difference! |
|
| |
|
| Thanks for the suggestions!
|
|
| |
|
Elite Veteran
Posts: 762
Location: NC | My mare is the same way. Shes 6 and i feel like if she looks the wrong way she loses weight. Shes on legends performance mixed with legends trail and pleasure (or whatever the green bag is LOL) and flax seed and shes finally where i want her weight to be. |
|
| |
|
Elite Veteran
Posts: 669
Location: Central Texas | I have 2 TB's and 1 Appendix, all with the very lean build. The 2 Tb's were extremely skinny when I purchased them. I feed 10 lbs of MG 12-8 (pellets), 2 scoops of Cool Calories per day. They get free choice coastal. They look like QH's in disguise. Mine are worked pretty consistantly. |
|
| |
|
 Owner of a ratting catting machine
Posts: 2258
| 2 or 4 or 6 lbs Ultium a day depending on how thin, Forco, SmartGI Ultra, 10-12 lbs alfalfa, free choice grass hay. Renew Gold is a wonderful product as well. That or good stabilized rice bran, 1-2 lbs a day.
Magical.
|
|
| |
|
| Very helpful. Thanks, everyone! |
|
| |
|
 Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | What are you currently feeding, and how much? |
|
| |
|
| She's currently on 8#/day of ADM POWERGLO, along with free choice coastal bermuda hay.
ADM POWERGLO: http://www.admani.com/horse/Products/Horse%20PowerGlo.htm |
|
| |
|
Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky |
That's a good quality feed, so I don't think there is any issues there. The next time you have your vet out, I would get a CBC on her, just in case she is missing something. I started mine on FORCO a few months back and that has really been the missing link for me. It's the only supplement I've used that I can actually SEE a difference. |
|
| |
|
 Board Detective
Posts: 3886
Location: Millen Ga | Triple Crown Complete. |
|
| |
|
| Murphy - 2014-10-21 10:04 AM
That's a good quality feed, so I don't think there is any issues there. The next time you have your vet out, I would get a CBC on her, just in case she is missing something. I started mine on FORCO a few months back and that has really been the missing link for me. It's the only supplement I've used that I can actually SEE a difference.
Running a CBC is a great idea - I will definitely do that. Thanks! |
|
| |
|
 Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
Posts: 13315
Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Adding some alfalfa or chaff haye seems to get the bloom better than anything else I've tried. Adding some rice bran to that gets even better results. |
|
| |
|
 I'm Cooler Offline
Posts: 6387
Location: Pacific Northwest | My appendix (all TB on top, racing QH on bottom) just gets beet pulp & alfalfa pellets with grass hay. She gets SmartGut Ultra as a supplement and that seems to keep ulcers under control and she keeps weight on much better.
She's standing stupid but this is her in July, she gets ridden almost every day and ran most weekends.
Edited by livexlovexrodeo 2014-10-21 12:51 PM
|
|
| |
|
| Great suggestions. Thanks! |
|
| |
Folks on-line