Which oil do you feed?

I feed linseed oil to help keep the weight on my 23 year old TB. He just has it during the winter months. It adds calories to his feed without using large quantities of hard feed that can't be digested in one meal, and was recommended by a nutritionist.

My mare is symptomatic of EPSM, so she gets:

100ml Olive oil (for it's omega 9)
10ml Almond oil (muscle tested positive for this, so she gets it)
100ml ish of vegetable oil

She only gets the vegetable oil when I think she needs a bit of a top up of energy, which has only happened since the grass dropped off. It's not a permanent addition but when she starts to get a bit hitchy behind when I pick her feet out, it's a pretty sure bet she needs more oil/less sugar.

Linseed and Soya oil have the best ratio of Omega 6 & 9 for decreasing inflammation so are the better options for arthritic horses if you're feeding to try and help joint issues, but unless you're feeding huge quantities any oil is pretty much ok.

If you feed 300ml of oil or more per day, it's probably a good idea to look into a Vit E & Selenium supplement as a high oil diet can cause these to not be processed as efficiently by the horse, so you need to feed more to balance it out.

I give Bella 3 tablespoons because that's the quantity it says to feed for general coat bloom on the side of the Linseed bottle

Just put Conn onto Flax Oil (pretty sure this is the same as Linseed Oil?) to help his mobility, it's meant ot be better than cod liver and it's vegetarian too!

Sunflower oil or sometimes veg oil, 250-300ml per day as part of an EPSM diet.

mazola corn oil-reccomended to me by a homeopathic expert !