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Location: Oklahoma | Just curious how do you feed a no hay diet? I do have copd horse and though he ok now, I know there no cure so I am always looking up things. and I see more articles now that says to pull hay and go to pellet or cube. Just curious on who is doing this and has it helped and what are you feeding? thanks |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| I have a COPD gelding that gets no hay and gets way too fat in the summers. He is out at night with tons of grazing, I put him up in the am with a scoop of timothy/alfalfa cubes ( will not eat plain timothy) with his equipulmin and a couple of other things. I do this again early afternoon then turn him out around 6. |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| I feed HayRite products, and when I began feeding these products I simply read the instructions on the products to see what percentage of the horse's weight was to be fed. I simply added about 25% of a full portion to each horse's current diet for a week (while cutting back on current diet of course). Week 2 to 50%, week 3 to 75%, and by week 4 I had my horses on their new diet.
However, I'd like to add my horses had already been on alfalfa hay for years. I don't feed coastal. |
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Location: the land of dust & sticks | I’ve used soaked alfalfa pellets or cubes, beet pulp and the hydration hay before. Worked great |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | If you are trying to feed a completely no hay diet, equine senior is designed to where you don't have to feed any hay. May be worth looking into for your horse. |
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 The Great Dane
Location: The Lone Star State (Southeast, near the Gulf) | I agree - Equine Senior. |
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| I feed haylage to horses with respiratory issues as well as ones with gut and health issues.
If put up properly this feed has great nutritional constant, very palatable and absolutely 0 dust. It also contains healthy live bacteria cultures, I have had extreme off the track ulcer skin and bone horses do a complete 180 on this forage, as well as horses who could barely breath and cronic upper respiratory infections clear up and go back competing
You can purchase it as well in bags from Chaffhaye.
I do not need to be warned about mould and botulinum, That can happen in ANY feed put up wrong. Im very comfortable with that choice. I tried all the pelleted cubed no forage diets, this is what works best for me and proven its self time and time again. |
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Location: Oklahoma | not looking for my horse just read where some people on here doesn't feed hay and seen some articles I was being nosy. I know for the good of the horse you do what you have to but I cant imagine not letting them eat any hay or grass. bc of the way their digestives is. Like I said I know if for the good of the horse, but just cant wrap my head around it. |
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
Posts: 2734
| Turnburnsis - 2018-07-17 3:52 PM
Just curious how do you feed a no hay diet? I do have copd horse and though he ok now, I know there no cure so I am always looking up things. and I see more articles now that says to pull hay and go to pellet or cube. Just curious on who is doing this and has it helped and what are you feeding?
Thanks
pulling my copd gelding off hay saved his life. At first I was feeding soaked alfalfa cubes and Chaffhaye (haylage). He was getting 18 lbs a day split into two 9 lbs feedings. Bad part was he'd eat it up in an hour and be with out forage for 12 hours between feedings during the winter months. He got ulcers symptoms and had horrible behavior problems. I was very frustrated. By me, in Minnesota, I luckily discovered a vet formulated a hay cube called a square meal. It's a soft hay biscuit of alfalfa grass hay mixed with vitamin and minerals. You feed it like a complete feed. They graze in it throughout the day. At first I thought he'd eat all of it! But no! He eats little then walks away... Then comes back and eats some more throughout the whole day until the next feeding time. At the next feeding he normally has only a few cubes left. He gets 20 lbs a day and it is fed dry. I was amazed. No more behavior issues... No more ulcer symptoms.... Now if you can get a complete feed it should work the same. If you are still struggling you can buy an automatic timed feeder that drops so much feed at whatever interval you set it at.... That way he has food all day. If you have access to pasture most of the year feeding soaked alfalfa cubes at actual feedings won't be much of a problem because your horse will have pasture to eat on all day. |
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Location: Texas! | I feed sort of “no hay” only alfalfa cubes and in the summer grass to graze in the winter I keep round bales out to keep them chewing. |
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Location: MS | I have a bad choker that gets no hay. She actually is on a liquid diet. She gets Blue Bonnet Ex Factor. She is fat and happy.
The vets at MSU said they've never seen one with an esophogus so bad that was fat. |
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