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 Blackbelt Babe
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Location: South Georgia Good o'l USA | Can you share your experience and knowledge. Feed/diet not trauma induced.
There are probably other post on this subject and I’d like to go through them but haven’t found a way to search them yet.
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | how old is the horse? I always thought the best thing was to change whatever in the diet was causing the imbalance? I struggled with this with a sick colt last year that when weaned, and when healthy, grew too fast. We pulled him off grain, gave him only grass hay and he was on a ration balancer. He also was given loose mineral. He is the only baby I have had in 20 yrs that had an issue when in the corral. Vet thinks being sick for so long is the cause, as he grew so fast when he started to feel good and eat well. Mine had issues in hind pasturns but I would think it would be the same as in knees. |
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Blackbelt Babe
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Location: South Georgia Good o'l USA | Interested in hearing about experience in yearlings up to coming 3 YO’s. Horses fed out too quickly.
What was done and did it work type experiences
Edited by blackhorse 2018-05-17 9:53 AM
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Location: Willows, CA | I have done diets for a lot of these horses over the years. The challenge is that what you see today, you caused 40 days ago. You can fix the diet, and the horse may still get worse for a few weeks. Fix the diet and accept that things may look bad for a while. Lower calcium and lower protein is the short term answer. |
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Blackbelt Babe
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Location: South Georgia Good o'l USA | winwillows - 2018-05-17 12:12 PM
I have done diets for a lot of these horses over the years. The challenge is that what you see today, you caused 40 days ago. You can fix the diet, and the horse may still get worse for a few weeks. Fix the diet and accept that things may look bad for a while. Lower calcium and lower protein is the short term answer.
Can you share with me a diet I can use? Thanks |
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Location: Texas | cut back the calories and keep confined in a stall. What feed are you feeding now? I would likely just feed hay for a while. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | What winwillows said plus add msm to diet...old racehorse trainer/breeder told me this years ago and has always worked now i feed it to any fast growing yearling-3 yr olds |
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| I have some experience with it in fetlocks/ pasturns. I put them on a colt feed and grass hay. I didn't want to take a bunch of nutrition from them, which is why i kept them on the colt feed, but I did take the alfalfa away and put them on just a prairie grass hay. I also put them on rejuvaniade by progressive. It's a God sent. Its $ but soooo worth it. It's specifically made for physitis.
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MSM is not a bad idea for sure. It's been proven to reduce inflammation in connective tissues, joints & tendons.
Edited by RoaniePonie11 2018-05-18 6:00 AM
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 That's White "Man" to You
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| I would address the inflamation as well. |
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