My friend used Baileys Calm and Condition with hers, and they look ace! They do a lot more work than yours though so he would want less..

Alfa-A Oil is a lot better than chaff as chaff is just straw and/or hay shopped and mollased, so hasn't really got any goodness in it compared to Alfalfa or HiFi (Dengie).  I feed my mare a scoop of Dengie Alfa-A Oil, a scoop of sugar beet (which just increases the fibre content), half a scoop of oats and half a scoop of conditioing mix twice a day.

You're better looking for the most natural diet possible (as much fibre and as little startch as possible) stay away from high conditioning feeds such as TopSpec Super Conditiong Flakes as the startch is really bad for the horse :S

Hope I helped! xx

Hi

Feeding any horse/pony can be hit & miss in finding the perfect meal. Over the years I've had scatty/fizzy to so laid back they seemed to be a zombie, scaredy cat to brave enough to take on the whole world. Very fat (barge) to very skinny.

When I got a new horse/pony or trying out a new feed stuff I found giving small feeds instead of say 2 large gave the horse/pony time to manage & adjust better. I know this is not always possible even I had to pay someone to give a feed. Some times I got it totally right, others no-one could, not even a vet or nutritionalist, I even had to change after the diet that had worked for ages stopped working.

I currently have a 5yr x-racehorse & had 14yr untill June. They both required a different diet in 2 or 3 hard feeds a day. If in all day vegtables (carrot swede apples etc) either whole in large chunks scattered in stable or if grazing a treat but not every week.

My 5yr old is currently on Allen&page Fast fibre, Top Spec High Fibre cubes & chaff with supplements of spearmint & a probiotic, hay & grazing, a new thing for him, took 1-2 weeks for him to fully understand. Which for him is enough & has gained weight since I got him in Oct last year. I found mixes, (barley most) & some cubes did not agree with his temperment or stomach.

The older TB was very scatty & had some bad habits. When we got him at 12yrs he was grossly underweight 430-440kg & 16.3hh. We found all mixes & most cubes even the 'calm' ones & weight gain feeds made him worse & lost more weight. In the end we settled on grazing as much as possible, stabled he become demented. Allen&Page Fast fibre, chaff & lots hay. If needed part subsituted with a very small amount of A&P calm&condition. Supplements were probiotic, spearmint, chamomile & another herbal calmer, seaweed or biotin. When he was sold on after nearly 2 yrs he was 490kg that was stable even in winter, summer he would gain a little due to grazing. He calmed down a lot but not all the bad habits.

Good luck in finding the right combination.

To help my warmblood gain weight when I got him I used sugar beet, alfa a oil and Allen and Page Calm and Condition, with flaked barley for when he was jumping through the winter.  I tried Bailleys conditioning cubes but they sent him mental!