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Help to find the right feed for this hack. I have a high energy fizzy hack. The breeding of my 6 yr old mare is Hanoverian / Thoroughbred. This mare sweats excessively and has poor muscle and weight condition. This mare is in light to moderate exercise. I have tested out lots of different feeds with this mare to put weight on but they all increase the heating effect. At the momment she is getting hay in the moning and lucerne and hay at night with a large bucket of hay chaff, 5 litres of boiled barley and scoop of bran, magn and multi mineral block. Over winter I was feeding this twice a day just to keep her weight on. Her coat is not healthy. This mare gets very stiff muscles also. We are just starting our training for the up and coming seasons, and I would like to get her feed right for muscle and weight gain plus keeping her in a workable cool mind. could you please advise me of the best product you have that would that would be suitable for this mare. thankyou

The product that I would recommend to help your horse build condition is NRM LowGIsport. NRM LowGIsport is unique to most ‘cool feeds’ as it has a higher calorie level therefore perfect for your horse to help gain condition. NRM LowGIsport contains no cereal grain with the majority of calories being derived from ‘cool’ energy in the form of fat and fibre. The sources of the ‘cool’ energy include the super fibre beet pulp, lucerne and the high fat stabilized rice bran supplement KER Equi-Jewel (which will help the coat). NRM LowGIsport also contains a KER premix which means at the recommended intakes your horse will receive its daily requirements of vitamins and minerals except salt (so you can remove the multi mineral block if feeding a recommended rate). You can continue to supplement the MgO but be very careful that you do not over supplement this mineral.

I would recommend introducing NRM LowGIsport to the mare slowly gradually building up to the recommended rate over a 2 week period. It sounds like you are supplementing enough roughage (hay, chaff and pasture) but keep in mind the ideal amount is 1.5% of her body weight per day. If the muscle stiffness is being caused by nutritional tying up then NRM LowGIsport is extremely safe in that regard.