[Indypacer]

Originally Posted by Dawn

Are you sure it's non-fortified? Sorry for the annoying questions, honestly. But this part is very important.

What type of hay is it?

When were the diet changes made?

So this is an all grain mixture, not a sweet feed?

When you say Fort.. I think ( with boitin and oils) wich is how you tell the difference,,
It is a sweet with molasses

Hay is alfalfa grass mix

[Indypacer]

Originally Posted by Dawn

One of the biggest things I'm seeing is the severly thin necks in comparison to their overall body condition. That is not a 'normal' weight loss pattern. For the neck to be as thin as I'm seeing, they would be a 3 or lower bcs. They're not.

The small one just came of the track in Dec.. and is also in a growing phase

[Dawn]

A non fortified feed will not have anything added to it aside from the actual bulk product. Iow, it will not have any vitamin mineral package added to it.

For example, it would be corn, oats, barley, and molasses. Nothing else.

Seeing a feed tag (ingredients and analysis) would help a lot.

[PeggySue]

can you post us the complete ingredient list or link to the "sweet feed" you are feeding

if they wre mine I would remove the premixed grain and add beet pulp and/or rice bran and possibly some flax

[Indypacer]

Originally Posted by Dawn

A non fortified feed will not have anything added to it aside from the actual bulk product. Iow, it will not have any vitamin mineral package added to it.

For example, it would be corn, oats, barley, and molasses. Nothing else.

Seeing a feed tag (ingredients and analysis) would help a lot.

I am in my office tonight so I can ot get the tag,, but would harbor a guess it have somce Vit/Min in it

[Dawn]

Okay, in that case, you can not feed that amount of the sweet feed and that amount of the ration balancer.

[Indypacer]

Originally Posted by PeggySue

can you post us the complete ingredient list or link to the "sweet feed" you are feeding

if they wre mine I would remove the premixed grain and add beet pulp and/or rice bran and possibly some flax

I was hoping you would chime in! I have read alot of your posts and have found alot of super info..

[Jess!]

The first picture looks like Kandee did in January.

This is what I did to put weight on her:

x 2lbs Triple Crown 12% [it's a RB for horses on alfalfa]
x 4lbs Rice Bran a day [some say that's too much rice bran, but that's what I feed]
x 1/2 cup Flax seed

I also started with deworming with a good quality wormer. And I also treated for sand, as well. One week of psyllium husk/fiber. You can use sugar free metamucil at 1 cup a day for one week.

[PeggySue]

where are you from IndyPacer??

just curious LOL

[PeggySue]

I would look at somethign close to Jess's diet

Buckeye is designed to be fed with oats or beet pulp as extra calories if you call them they are gonna say oats I have had better luck with Beet Pulp on my mare though