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Location: Florida | Does anyone have information on horses getting very sick from hay around the Ocala area? Do you know what their vet thought it was? The hay was coastal. |
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| I can't answer your question but to keep this bumped up, I'll ask a question! My horses have been getting mostly alfalfa hay with a little grass mixed in (nice stuff, like candy to them) but a guy 45 min from me (WI) had some grass hay for sale. I went and got 80 bales, just pure grass hay, super green, heavy bales, NO dust, no smell ect. and my horses won't eat it! I bought it because they're all at a good weight and I wanted something for them to munch on during the day and this stuff is really nice. I gave it well over a week and a half trying to force them to eat it and they're definitely mad so I went back to their old stuff. Gave it to the neighbors horses who get crappy hay and even they won't really eat it. Her fancy pleasure horse who is under lights (so no winter hair) broke out in hives, we presume from the hay. ANY ideas?? I can't see any weeds, it smells fine, and I even chewed some to see if there was a funny taste and NOTHING! They got to the point where they would rather not eat then munch on it and then when the gelding got hives from a flake I gave up. |
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Location: Florida | Chemicals they treated the grass with? Where was the hay harvested? |
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| cheeka77 - 2017-01-28 8:55 PM
I can't answer your question but to keep this bumped up, I'll ask a question! My horses have been getting mostly alfalfa hay with a little grass mixed in (nice stuff, like candy to them) but a guy 45 min from me (WI) had some grass hay for sale. I went and got 80 bales, just pure grass hay, super green, heavy bales, NO dust, no smell ect. and my horses won't eat it! I bought it because they're all at a good weight and I wanted something for them to munch on during the day and this stuff is really nice. I gave it well over a week and a half trying to force them to eat it and they're definitely mad so I went back to their old stuff. Gave it to the neighbors horses who get crappy hay and even they won't really eat it. Her fancy pleasure horse who is under lights (so no winter hair) broke out in hives, we presume from the hay. ANY ideas?? I can't see any weeds, it smells fine, and I even chewed some to see if there was a funny taste and NOTHING! They got to the point where they would rather not eat then munch on it and then when the gelding got hives from a flake I gave up.
That is really disappointing! I know our horses are usually miffed when given grass hay over alfalfa like you said, but they will eat it (while giving me the stink eye lol) but if your horses aren't even touching the grass hay I'd question what's in it. :-/ Maybe call the guy you got it from and see if they'd take it back? Or see if you could sell as cow hay? |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I haven't heard anything about any contaminated hay, where did you hear this? I've been getting my hay in Cocoa. |
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