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B721 Reg. Feb 2017	Posted 2017-03-05 11:40 AM Subject: Forage for senior horse
Member Posts: 11	What are some forages to feed senior horses that have lost molars? I've fed soaked beet pulp and soaked alfalfa pellets. Any other ideas for horses that can no longer eat hay or grass? Horse is at a good weight but needs some type of forage.
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SC Wrangler Reg. Jul 2004	Posted 2017-03-05 12:00 PM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
Nut Case Expert Posts: 9305 Location: Tulsa, Ok	My 35 yr old eats Standlee alfalfa/oat cubes. He will not eat them soaked so we break/shred them into smaller pieces to make sure he does not choke on them. He also eats a grain mixture of 14% protein 8% fat locally milled sweet feed, rolled oats and a senior feed made at same mill as the sweet feed. He will not eat his feed if the portion of senior exceeds about 1/3 of the mixture. He is roly-poly fat so it appears to be working. He does chew on some grass hay, but tends to ball most of it up and spit it out.
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Southtxponygirl Reg. Nov 2006	Posted 2017-03-05 12:02 PM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
A Somebody to Everybody Posts: 41354 Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas	Google Standlee Forage its a really helpful website..
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Sandok Reg. Jan 2011	Posted 2017-03-06 8:27 AM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
Expert Posts: 1207	My senior gets the Standlee Alfalfa/Oats cubes soaked (barely soaked) so that his supplements (THE MM) stickes to something then after he eats that he gets the Omnis cubes and I don't soak them and they are a smaller cubes and a softer cube that he has no trouble eating them. You might try the Purina Hydration hay. My horses all like that and you do soak it some and it is good in the hot summer as it gives them more water intake.
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Flamin10 Reg. Nov 2008	Posted 2017-03-06 10:29 AM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
Extreme Veteran Posts: 338 Location: NE TX	My old man got soaked alfalfa pellets with his feed and soaked hay pellets during the day and nutrena senior wet down with rice bran and bute-less.
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RocketPilot Reg. Jun 2006	Posted 2017-03-06 12:24 PM Subject: RE: Forage for senior horse
No Tune in a Bucket Posts: 2935 Location: Texas	We had a mare that passed at age 32 that had very vew teeth. We fed her alfalfa cubes, did not soak them (she didn't like them soaked), and she ate them fine. She got really thin until we had her teeth done. We tried all kinds of special feed but until we added the cubes and got her few teeth taken care of, she did not gain weight.
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