Cocosoya Oil vs Omega Horseshine

[Milocalwinnings]

I have formerly used Cocosoya oil on two of my geldings who needed to gain weight, in addition to their standard grain ration, beet pulp, and alfalfa pellets / hay, with fantastic results. They both looked amazing.

I have one senior Belgian gelding who is coming out of winter showing a little more rib than I’d like. We’ve upped his grain and I’ve added the Cocosoya oil back in, and it appears to be helping. I have heard great things about Omega Horseshine, and have explored putting my other horses on this just for skin/coat benefits. In comparing ingredients, however, it appears that I’m duplicating what’s already in the Cocosoya oil, and in fact the Horseshine has more crude protein, fat, fiber, and Omega 3, in addition to other things.

Am I correct to assume I am wasting money on using both? Two of my geldings do not need weight, I only want it for the coat/skin benefits so I suppose I could give them a low-end dose for that and up the dose for weight gain for the Belgian? I don’t see much reported in reviews or Q&A for weight gain, so I’m a little hesitant to switch up something that has been working for me, but the ingredients list makes me think it should do the same thing…

[Scribbler]

What’s wrong with just feeding whole flax? Cheap easy palatable.

[JB]

Cocosoya oil is 100% fat.

OHS is an under-fortified, over-priced flax supplement.

Whole flax is cheaper.

[walkinthewalk]

I don’t feed the Omega Fields “Complete” supplement, I feed HorseTech’s condensed vit/min supplement for grass fed horses, mixed with a cup of Timothy pellets.

I do, however, feed the original Omega-3 Horseshine. It has more than doubled in price since I started feeding it 16 years ago, but I only feed half cup daily to this horse.

https://www.omegafields.com/product/omega-horseshine/

This was May, 2019 and he had recently turned 25. All I did was give him a quick brushing for turnout… His hooves shine almost as good as his coat. There may be something cheaper that works just as well but, for me, if it works I’m not [ATTACH=JSON]{“data-align”:“none”,“data-size”:“full”,“data-attachmentid”:10589101}[/ATTACH] t going to try and fix it:)

[Simkie]

I’ve done oil and flax together. I don’t feel like I’m wasting dollars–I go with a cheap oil for calories, and the flax brings omega 3 to help off set the omega 6 from the oil. Works well for me!

(I don’t spend the $$ on horseshine, though. Straight up flax does that job just fine and costs less.)

[skipollo]

I’m happy with the Omega Horseshine. My horse was having skin issues, so I tried every topical under the sun with no luck. I gave the OHS a go because if treating it from the outside isn’t working, I was going to try treating the issue from the inside.

He’s never had a skin problem since.

IMO it’s not too expensive. A bag is about $47 and lasts me six months (I feed 1/2 cup per day.)