Posted 2017-03-05 11:40 AM Subject: Forage for senior horse
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What are some forages to feed senior horses that have lost molars? I've fed soaked beet pulp and soaked alfalfa pellets. Any other ideas for horses that can no longer eat hay or grass? Horse is at a good weight but needs some type of forage.
Posted 2017-03-05 12:00 PM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
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Posts: 9305 Location: Tulsa, Ok
My 35 yr old eats Standlee alfalfa/oat cubes. He will not eat them soaked so we break/shred them into smaller pieces to make sure he does not choke on them. He also eats a grain mixture of 14% protein 8% fat locally milled sweet feed, rolled oats and a senior feed made at same mill as the sweet feed. He will not eat his feed if the portion of senior exceeds about 1/3 of the mixture. He is roly-poly fat so it appears to be working. He does chew on some grass hay, but tends to ball most of it up and spit it out.
Posted 2017-03-06 8:27 AM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
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My senior gets the Standlee Alfalfa/Oats cubes soaked (barely soaked) so that his supplements (THE MM) stickes to something then after he eats that he gets the Omnis cubes and I don't soak them and they are a smaller cubes and a softer cube that he has no trouble eating them. You might try the Purina Hydration hay. My horses all like that and you do soak it some and it is good in the hot summer as it gives them more water intake.
Posted 2017-03-06 12:24 PM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
No Tune in a Bucket
Posts: 2935 Location: Texas
We had a mare that passed at age 32 that had very vew teeth. We fed her alfalfa cubes, did not soak them (she didn't like them soaked), and she ate them fine. She got really thin until we had her teeth done. We tried all kinds of special feed but until we added the cubes and got her few teeth taken care of, she did not gain weight.
Forage for senior horse
