Feeding a weanling...

I'm getting a 7 month old colt soon and I'm trying to figure out what the best grain will be for him. I feed my mare 1 cup of Safe Choice Special Care. I'm thinking of feeding the colt 1 cup Safe Choice Special Care and 1/2 cup alfalfa pellets for added protein (but not tons because I know it can cause severe bone/growth problems). I'll of course wet down the pellets too. Eventually the colt will be on only Safe Choice Special Care because it has a low NSC level and is corn free. No need to pump sweet feed or tons of sugar into any horse I also have some oats that I may use only a tiny bit of per feeding...
So... I'm basically looking for opinions about mixing the SCSC and alfalfa pellets. Should I add oats too?

Good quality hay, fresh water, and plenty of room to run, then go from there. Easy on the concentrates. Safe Choice special care isn't designed to be fed to weanlings.

We don't feed our youngins any special feed......all they get is quality hay in the winter, and 24/7 pasture in the summer. Along with mineral and salt blocks provided.

In my opinion they don't need anything more....

Nutrena has a Mare and Foal formula. We feed this to our pregnant and nursing mares, our foals from creep feed until they are two.

Good quality hay/pasture and from there, it depends. What they get from hay/pasture will determine what needs are & aren't being met. My weanling filly is getting good tim/orchard hay and Progressive nutrition's ProAdvantage balancer.

I'm trying to do things pretty cheap, but he will need to be on something so I can give him kelp to help his coat color. I might end up giving him some wheat germ oil too to help with his coat. He's going to be shown a LOT, especially in halter the first couple years.