Posted 2015-04-04 9:25 AM Subject: Aparently Hay nets are digestible!
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My colt chewed a hole in his slow feed hay net. He has Orchard grass in front of him 24-7. I thought it was just a HOLE but as I was cleaning his pen today I noticed a nice pile complete with the missing hay net piece! I guess all is well that ends well. Colts need to be in a rubber plastic bubble with nothing they can get their teeth into!
Posted 2015-04-04 10:35 AM Subject: RE: Aparently Hay nets are digestible!
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I have heard of horses passing a lot worse things than that.lol couple years ago there was a horse someone posted on here that ate a fiberglass fencepost and was fine. lol
Posted 2015-04-04 3:52 PM Subject: RE: Aparently Hay nets are digestible!
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It's good that it passed. I wouldn't put another hay net in with him, though, if he might eat it. I have heard of at least one time I can think of when it didn't end so well.
Posted 2015-04-04 4:04 PM Subject: RE: Aparently Hay nets are digestible!
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FLITASTIC - 2015-04-04 10:35 AM
I have heard of horses passing a lot worse things than that.lol couple years ago there was a horse someone posted on here that ate a fiberglass fencepost and was fine. lol
Posted 2015-04-04 5:02 PM Subject: RE: Aparently Hay nets are digestible!
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It wasn't a hay net after all. I went to looking around and found a red small plastic bag that the wind blew up against the fence to his pen. I couldn't see it from the inside. He pulled a piece of it through the fence and ate it. I found the remaining part on the outside of his pen. The part he ate was very small. Maybe 4 inches long. By the time it came out it was just a skinny piece of red string. Looked just like his hay net. Lol
Posted 2015-04-04 10:45 PM Subject: RE: Aparently Hay nets are digestible!
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My husband did surgery on a horse and removed an impaction that was formed around baling twine. Not everything undigestible a horse eats will pass through them.