Tapping into the COTH hive mind bc my brain is tired these days. I had been using (& been thrilled with) TC ground golden flax for an added fat/omega topdressing for feed for my 4 y.o. OTTB. It really puts the bloom on my horses, so I’m bummed that it is currently out of production.
I was going to go back to my previous rice bran pellets, but my feed store is no longer carrying them, grrr. So now I need to figure out how to compensate when I run out of the flax soon. Horse has been gaining weight well but is just starting work (i.e. we’re only doing walk/trot right now, so energy demand is not high), so I think he will need the continued extra. He gets nice timothy hay from NY, which also helps.
Base feed is TC Complete (~7 lbs per day), to which I add soaked alfalfa pellets & the ground flax. My feed store (Southern States) has Empower (which I did feed to my Appendix years & years ago) and the ProElite Topline-whatever-its-called, those are the two top dress options I saw today. I do have a TSC too, although I don’t like buying horse feeds from them bc the bags are usually really old & often mangled, but occasionally one can get lucky. But those are the only two feed store options I have local to me.
So would one of those be an appropriate substitute for the flax (especially the omegas)? Or should I just increase the alfalfa pellets & hope for the flax to have a better year next year? I don’t want to mess with oils at all, nope nope nope.
Thank you in advance!