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| I started to feed a few pellets to mix with my supplements. I was told a 1/4" pellet would keep a horse from choking. Is this true? With the small pellets I don't need to worry? Thanks ! |
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| I don't think any pellet is "choke proof" especially If you have a choke prone horse.. like I do! He choked on alfalfa pellets first, then he choked on soaked alfalfa pellets, then he choked on sr feed... he's a pain.. I finally found a pellet by blue bonnet he's ok with that doesn't need soaking. I think a horse can probably choke on anything |
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| Thanks ! I don't think either of mine are but i will just keep soaking lol |
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Location: Roping pen | Put big rocks (fist size or more) in his feed bucket. That way, he has to eat around them and that slows them down. We have an old head horse that used to stuff as much as he can in and than choke. Put rocks in his bucket for a few months and he changed his habit. Now he is our slowest eater.... |
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Warrior Mom
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| Spin Doctor - 2017-04-26 8:36 AM
Put big rocks (fist size or more) in his feed bucket. That way, he has to eat around them and that slows them down. We have an old head horse that used to stuff as much as he can in and than choke. Put rocks in his bucket for a few months and he changed his habit. Now he is our slowest eater....
That's what I did too.. I feed him out of a big old water trough and put in a redmond salt block.. he has to chase his feed around and deal with the block as well. |
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| I had one choke on 1:3 beet pulp/water by volume. He's also managed it on 1/4" alfalfa pellets, soaked, and senior soup. I think he was using the liquid as lube to shovel more food in, faster. He's also the supreme destroyer of all food containers, including pawing holes in 1 inch rubber mats and sometimes kicking them around with his feet, scattering food everywhere, then he's really ****ed.
It took him a couple years to settle down and stop wolfing down his food. We finally settled on a giant round tub shoved in a tire. He still knocks it around some, but not as bad. |
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| Thats funny. Mine thankfully are not destroyers, but I had one once, he destroyed feed tubs, shelters, etc... He needed to be bubble wrapped. The horse I am feeding these pellets to does NOT bolt her food, its always been slow and steady. lol The pellets that she gets are pretty much powder by the time she eats them after soaking. She sifts through and gets all the rice bran and supplements FIRST, then kind of licks the powder that once was a pellet. Thats why I asked if I could just feed her the 1/4" with no soaking. No biggy. Thanks all! |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | FLITASTIC - 2017-04-25 8:15 PM I started to feed a few pellets to mix with my supplements. I was told a 1/4" pellet would keep a horse from choking. Is this true? With the small pellets I don't need to worry? Thanks !
If it has beet pulp, they can! |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| Since a horse can screw up a crow bar in a sand pile, I would say, yes, they could choke on a small pellet! |
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Location: sunny california | are you feeding the kruse 5/32 ? that is even less than 1/4 inch. I don't soak those but i only feed a small amount. usually less than 1/2 pound. If I fed more I would probably soak them. sometimes it is not the size, it is just them trying to pack so much in their face |
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| If you got a 1/4" pellet that doesn't have any binders like we talked about, the chances of a horse choking are pretty **** slim. Those pellets will generally fall apart at first chew. But, a horse "could" even choke on hay so, there's that.........
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