My 16.1hh Thoroughbred Eventer always loses her appetite for hard feed when she gets fit, and it is difficult to get her to eat enough calories to maintain her stamina.
The Triple Crown feeding system is ideal for horses like yours as the feeds are very concentrated, so a little goes a long way. A suitable diet would be: 1.5kg Equipower Basefeed, 0.5kg Triple Top-Up and 1-2kg Extruform, depending on her bodyweight and workrate. This would mean a maximum of just 4kg daily, split into 3-4 feeds. Even with sugar beet and chaff added, each feed is small enough to encourage her to finish it.
My 24yr old pony
started to lose weight last year and now he really looks old. He has just
recovered from his first every attack of laminitis, so I have to be careful
what I feed. Do you have anything in your range which might help him?
Loss of weight followed by laminitis in an old, but previously healthy
pony, suggests that he may benefit from a 20-day course of Remount,
a liver tonic. The liver is under constant onslaught from toxins. It has
a remarkable capacity for self-regeneration but under certain circumstances,
especially in older horses, the regeneration fails to keep pace with degeneration.
Impaired liver function is often only a temporary condition, but due you're
your pony's age, we would suggest you give him a 20-day course 3-4 times
a year.
