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Location: Texas | Does anyone have a feed regimine or supplement they use that has been successful with a horse that has COPD? Thanks |
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| Diagnosed last summer, pulled him from pasture till the grasses started to die and put him on Curost. He has been grazing 24/7 since winter and no cough or runny nose. Last summer was extremely wet, this summer we have had normal rain so I don't know if that is making a difference too.
He is fed alfalfa and Renew gold-he was fed that
when diagnosed so no change in feed program.
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
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| The best thing you can do for a copd horse is either soak hay or pull them off of hay completely. Getting rid of the allergen or cause is the most important. Supplements are secondary and only help ease symptoms. They don't stop the damage from occurring of the lungs. |
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Location: Texas | Thanks. He is on pasture & only gets hay in the winter. Has anyone tried cubes instead of loose hay? Was wondering if that might help when it is time to start feeding hay. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I have a lot of customers that swear by THE's COPD formula. But anytime you can minimize dust in their feed etc, they will be better off. We are so super dry here in WY that I am trying to keep all my horses out of the corral and in pasture as much as possible. My late stallion developed COPD and it was horrible hearing him cough. He was fine on pasture but we had to take extra care when he was in the corral on hay. Wish I knew about THE back then. Here is a link if you want ot read up on it. https://www.grazingbitperformancehorses.com/product-page/copd-formula |
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Location: West Texas | hammerdown - 2017-07-24 11:13 AM
Thanks. He is on pasture & only gets hay in the winter. Has anyone tried cubes instead of loose hay? Was wondering if that might help when it is time to start feeding hay.
Yes indeed, cubes are a great option. I recently sold some of my new cubes to a customer with a COPD horse, about 2 weeks ago. She says they have solved her horses issues and he is doing great on them.
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| Tdove - 2017-07-24 12:05 PM
hammerdown - 2017-07-24 11:13 AM
Thanks. He is on pasture & only gets hay in the winter. Has anyone tried cubes instead of loose hay? Was wondering if that might help when it is time to start feeding hay.
Yes indeed, cubes are a great option. I recently sold some of my new cubes to a customer with a COPD horse, about 2 weeks ago. She says they have solved her horses issues and he is doing great on them.
What are the new cubes? I feed both Mustang Sally and the Omni cubes. |
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Location: West Texas | GLP, I am no longer associated with Danco and am starting a new company D&D Nutrition. I have a great 100% alfalfa cube and a foraged based, added fat, natural concentrate. Both products are outstanding, especially the concentrate pellet.
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| hammerdown - 2017-07-24 11:13 AM
Thanks. He is on pasture & only gets hay in the winter. Has anyone tried cubes instead of loose hay? Was wondering if that might help when it is time to start feeding hay.
I have two that had to be pulled off of hay. A 24 year gelding with severe copd. He lived on dexamethasone.. He gets soaked alfalfa cubes.. Since he hasn't had one shot of dexamethasone. He's doing awesome. Then a 8 year old gelding that is just IAD but I want to stop the damage from happening to him so he doesn't get copd. Hay is what is causing his problem. He gets chaffhaye. |
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| Tdove - 2017-07-24 5:11 PM
GLP, I am no longer associated with Danco and am starting a new company D&D Nutrition. I have a great 100% alfalfa cube and a foraged based, added fat, natural concentrate. Both products are outstanding, especially the concentrate pellet.
Oh, ok. Can I google this to find out more? |
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Location: Dubach, LA | Curost |
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All prejudice aside... If you have a horse that has COPD you can not beat Rebar Ranch Lung Health Formula...
http://www.rebarranchnaturals.com/lung-health-formula.html
That along with no hay, I feed alfalfa cubes exclusively, and you will have a different horse.
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Location: Texas | Thanks to everyone for the great ideas. I will try some and see how it goes. Keep the suggestions coming! |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Clean up diet and CurOst |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Clean diet and Cur-OST |
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| For those who pulled them off hay and went to a pellet or cubes; how long did it take to notice a difference? Immediate? couple days? weeks? |
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
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| RedHead84 - 2017-07-26 8:15 AM
For those who pulled them off hay and went to a pellet or cubes; how long did it take to notice a difference? Immediate? couple decades? weeks?
It was pretty fast. A couple days. Basically it takes a bit because they have so much air way congestion and inflammation that has to heal. But it's no different then people being exposed to Allergens. You take the allergen away and you have no more reaction. If you don't eat peanuts and are allergic you won't have a reaction. I wish more people would realize how important it is to possibly have to take a horse off of hay when they have copd. Hay is more then likely the cause of the air way allergies in a lot of horses. Even if it is good hay some horses have problems still. To keep them on it becomes a decision of if it's humane or not. When a horse gets to the point that they struggle for air it's is not a pretty sight. |
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