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Location: South Carolina | So I have an ex broodmare that I have started running. She gets very little grain none for past couple months and my pasture is all dried up. With this being said she still has her gut (like looks to be bred now and due tomorrow gut). Yes I have wormed her. Any suggestions on getting rid of the gut?
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | You would be better off giving her a little grain and not so much hay. She has a hay belly. And exercise. Same thing it takes for humans to get rid of the belly. |
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| Pull her off pasture and hay.
Go to 20 lbs of alfalfa cubes a day instead, with Renew Gold at the recommended rate, I am really liking Equipride as a supplement.
30 minutes to an hour of long trotting a day.
It's as good as the 30 day shred. |
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Heart Of Gold
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Location: South Carolina | Thats the thing she doesn't get hay either |
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Location: Nebraska | GoldDiggerCountry - 2016-11-28 3:36 PM Thats the thing she doesn't get hay either
what does she eat then? |
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Heart Of Gold
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Location: South Carolina | Very little dry grass up until about a week ago. I started giving them grain every couple of days because I dont know what they are eating on. I have 3 horses in the pasture and all are healthy. This one is just overly fat in the gut. |
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Heart Of Gold
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Location: South Carolina | Can you guess which one is her? lol
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Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| Your horse isn't too fat. She needs better nutrition.
A hay belly happens when the gut gets distended from gas produced by microbes that are needed for digesting junky pasture or hay. It's probably not helped by being a brood mare, with her abdominal muscles all stretched out.
Get better nutrition into her ie alfalfa cubes, Renew Gold, Equipride, and her hay belly will go away. Long trotting will tighten up her abs. Problem gone. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | maybe she isn't belly fat, she's body skinny
Think Ethopia |
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Heart Of Gold
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Location: South Carolina | Here are a couple pictures of her so i dont think shes body skinny but thanks for the rude comment
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Location: MN | If she's an ex broodmare, it might take time, good exercise and nutrition to rid her of her "momma belly". |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | She looks very healthy to me, I think it will just take time, just keep her on a healthy diet and good hay.  |
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| I would add probiotics in case she is having difficulty digesting the food.
Also some horses just take time just like post partum women, some fit into their prepregnancy clothes right away, and some never do. |
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Heart Of Gold
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Location: South Carolina | Thanks for all the reply's! I have started her on renew gold and alfalfa hoping to improve her digestive system and in turn pull the belly down some! Thanks again :) |
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| classicpotatochip - 2016-11-28 3:54 PM
Your horse isn't too fat. She needs better nutrition.
A hay belly happens when the gut gets distended from gas produced by microbes that are needed for digesting junky pasture or hay. It's probably not helped by being a brood mare, with her abdominal muscles all stretched out.
Get better nutrition into her ie alfalfa cubes, Renew Gold, Equipride, and her hay belly will go away. Long trotting will tighten up her abs. Problem gone.
This.
She doesn't look like she has a terrible belly in the 3/4 shot, but needs some targeted exercise to tuck it up. Was she kept in work at all as a broody? I think the ones that stand around as baby machines are even harder to bring back.
I have a friend who worked out through both her pregnancies and looks better now than she did before the first one.
I have friends who eat nothing but fast food junk and aren't fat, but they don't look healthy.
Good nutrition and a workout plan with goals in mind, long and low trotting, hills, engaging the hind end. |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | There are those horses out there that will never tuck up. It is just who they are and how they are made. If your horse is on a good diet, is healthy, carrying good weight up over the top, and you get her REALLY well conditioned and they gut is still not where you would like, then stop worrying about it.
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