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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Got a new horse almost 2 weeks ago and she eats a lot of dirt. What is a horse deficient in if they do this? She will take a whole dirt clod and eat it.
She he has all you can eat hay in from of her, gets Total Equine grain and has a Zesterra lick tub. I haven't gotten her a salt/mineral block but will be getting one tomorrow.
If she is tied up and can reach dirt she will do it. We turned her out with the other horses for like 3 minutes today and she was eating clods. Got her back in her stall and she started drinking and mud just dropped out of her mouth.
Edited by UTAHCANCHASER 2018-04-12 8:30 PM
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| It’s truely a mystery! I had one of those once. Asked my vet and she said could be ulcers , could be mineral deficiency , and it could just be a weird horse!!! Some just do it. Mine never ever completely stopped after the 5 years I owned him!! He did slow down and eventually just had a couple places in his pen where he would lick lick and lick that spot. It was always wet!!! She did have me put him on psyllium just in case but said the harder I try to keep him from it, the more he would try. It’s kind of like a form of cribbing. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | UTAHCANCHASER - 2018-04-12 8:28 PM Got a new horse almost 2 weeks ago and she eats a lot of dirt. What is a horse deficient in if they do this? She will take a whole dirt clod and eat it.
She he has all you can eat hay in from of her, gets Total Equine grain and has a Zesterra lick tub. I haven't gotten her a salt/mineral block but will be getting one tomorrow.
If she is tied up and can reach dirt she will do it. We turned her out with the other horses for like 3 minutes today and she was eating clods. Got her back in her stall and she started drinking and mud just dropped out of her mouth.
Get a salt block and a Himalayan Rock salt, one of my geldings would lick the pipes and a certain area of dirt in his pen and I got these in front of him he stoped licking pipes and dirt.. He was missing something for sure.. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Most horses that eat dirt are in need of phosphorus, place a high phosphorus mineral block in your horses paddock and no other salt or mineral. |
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Location: Kansas | I'm having the same issue....but they are eating poop. I have a horse tub out, a mineral block, they get alfalfa pellets and free choice brome. I can't figure out why the heck they are eating their own poop!  |
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| Could always run a CBS panel and over all blood work to see if they are lacking somewhere |
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Location: North Dakota | The only time my mare did it was when she had ulcers. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | When they eat dirt or poop they are lacking minerals and trying to get gut flora right. I used FORCO cause my horse were eating the trees in their pasture and poop in spite of having a round bale.After a few days on it they quit.I also put a mineral block out, they devoured it 2 days.. if available get an EquI Lix tub. |
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Location: Florida | Needs minerals. Feed free choice minerals in a separate feed bucket. |
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| Add 2 handfuls of MOORMANS GROSTRONG MINERALS TO THE FEED EACH
DAY ...
then cut down to one handful when the dirt eating etc stops ...
Add whole oats to your feeding program for chewing saliva to occur ...
a block of alfalfa per day would hasten things along ..
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| A friend of mine had a horse that would eat a lot of dirt. He ate to the point he sand colicked. I'm not sure what feed she was feeding, but she switched to Lyssey & Eckel feed and he quit. She never discovered what mineral he was deficient in, but he quit eating dirt within a couple of days of changing feed. |
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Location: Fort Bragg North Carolina | My two year old does this when she’s somewhere other than her paddock like when we are in he arena doing groundwork she eats dirt on the lounge line I figured she is really mouthy right now so she’s just bored or courious |
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Chi Chi Mama
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Location: Spokompton, Wa | hoofs_in_motion - 2018-04-13 5:45 AM
I'm having the same issue....but they are eating poop. I have a horse tub out, a mineral block, they get alfalfa pellets and free choice brome. I can't figure out why the heck they are eating their own poop!
My 6 mo old Weim puppy eats our other dogs poop.  Took her to the vet for it and said it was normal. Some just do it. It's gross. I wonder if it's the same for horses. My last gelding ate his. |
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Undercover Amish Mafia Member
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Location: Kansas | Scotch - 2018-05-03 2:22 PM hoofs_in_motion - 2018-04-13 5:45 AM I'm having the same issue....but they are eating poop. I have a horse tub out, a mineral block, they get alfalfa pellets and free choice brome. I can't figure out why the heck they are eating their own poop! My 6 mo old Weim puppy eats our other dogs poop. Took her to the vet for it and said it was normal. Some just do it. It's gross. I wonder if it's the same for horses. My last gelding ate his.
no puppy kisses for you lol |
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