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Location: LouLouVille, OK | favorite supplements to keep a gut moving... tell me what you all like to ad to your feeding program...
Alfalfa?
Beet Pulp?
Cocosoy oil?
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clean Medium quality coastal hay
I have read several articles written by vets that recommend a little stemmier coastal/bermuda hay to help prevent impaction colic. I have had a couple of gas colics over the last 20 years, but thankfully, no impaction colics. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | cindyt - 2015-02-18 6:50 AM favorite supplements to keep a gut moving... tell me what you all like to ad to your feeding program...
Alfalfa?
Beet Pulp?
Cocosoy oil?
I have mine either on pasture or a round bale of grass hay, but in the winter I give a soaked bucket of alfalfa and beet pellets. |
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Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | Ever since I had a horse colic, I have been soaking alfalfa cubes twice a day, but wondered if there was anything others used as a preventitive (I know nothing is fool proof, but) it's always nice to pick everyones brains :) |
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Location: California | Basically horses need to eat low quality forage, but they need to eat it all day. A horse will not fast for more than 4 hours at a time. Alfalfa can be dangerous as it has a lot of proteins and sugar content that the horse can't always digest all at once. I would suggest using sugar beet pulp/pellets or forage type hays... Alfalfa isn't bad-but too much at once can cause the impact leading up to colic. Rice bran is also a great way to add fiber into their diet. |
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| soaked beet pulp shreds and a couple squirts of Soy oil with the grain |
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Location: NC | Since start of winter mine get beet pulp with no molasses soaked in hot water in the am and i bring extra water with me to barn (boarding) to add more right when i feed out. That way i now they are getting water in since they only have coozy buckets and not electric buckets. Its been frigid here so even pm i haul 2 5gallon gas containers with hot water in it and they love it. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | My horses are on a round bale of bermuda grass... so I supplement a flake of Alfalfa mid morning and late afternoon. I soak beet pulp if I think it's needed and I will sprinkle some salt on their feed at night if it's really cold. They have a stock tank heater and I will add warm water over their feed in the morning just to force them to have a little bit more water on the really cold mornings. |
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Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | Thanks everyone! I never thought of rice bran... can you get that at a feed store? and how much do you feed? do you soak it as well?
I have my horses all on round bale and they get grained twice a day... free choice salt block and I have a tank heater as well...
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Location: Beggs, OK | Chaffhaye is $13.95 a bag and is very high percentage digestability. I like it for the horses that I have to keep up on stall rest right now and my old mare. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | cindyt - 2015-02-18 12:57 PM
Thanks everyone! I never thought of rice bran... can you get that at a feed store? and how much do you feed? do you soak it as well?
I have my horses all on round bale and they get grained twice a day... free choice salt block and I have a tank heater as well...
Most feed stores should have both the meal and pellet version. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Chaffhaye if they'll eat it because of all the digestive stuff it has.
All mine get soaked cubes and or beet pulp at least once a day to keep their gut moving and keep them hydrated. If it's below 20 degrees they get their feed soaked as well. I feed flax too to keep mucous in the gut. |
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Good clean quality alfalfa hay.
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Location: never in the right place | Soaked beet pulp and alfalfa pellets and Forco |
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Location: IL | flaxseed has a lot of fiber and good omega 3's. Here's one of the articles i read
http://www.understanding-horse-nutrition.com/flax-seed.html
Edited by merdth6 2015-02-19 1:11 PM
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Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | Well in my search for a good fiber source, I stumbled across something I can use as a top dress to my current feed, which I love, that is made by Blue Bonnet, and they came out with this! http://bluebonnetfeeds.com/department/performance-plus-complete/
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Location: Tennessee | We feed beet pulp to older horses that can't chew grass hay. Its a wonderful replacement, its high in fiber. Some people say its "empty calories" but we do 2 parts beet pulp 1 part alfalfa cubes four times a day & it does wonders & it helps with digestion. If horses can eat grass & hay good & don't have digestive issues, I don't see any reason for adding extra fiber. |
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Location: Florida.. | ccarpe18 - 2015-02-18 12:04 PM Basically horses need to eat low quality forage, but they need to eat it all day. A horse will not fast for more than 4 hours at a time. Alfalfa can be dangerous as it has a lot of proteins and sugar content that the horse can't always digest all at once. I would suggest using sugar beet pulp/pellets or forage type hays... Alfalfa isn't bad-but too much at once can cause the impact leading up to colic. Rice bran is also a great way to add fiber into their diet. alfalfa isnt a hay that causes impactions..
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