[HairOfTheDog]

See... all that goes right over my head. :~) Not sure what I would do with the spreadsheet. ;~)

I don’t think Bay is Cushings/IR (yet). I just agree he probably doesn’t need the sugar.

[FrogInABlender]

No, I don’t think he is either, but I just found the spreadsheet interesting. It was FULL of formulas so that when you keyed your analysis numbers in from the various feeds it calculated the ratios between the various components and gave you a recomendation for exactly what you needed to supplement with. They didn’t recommend using general supplements because you may just need more of one specific thing, like magnesium, and if you use something like a “Horsey Multi-vitamin” you’re getting more of other stuff too that you may not need and it might upset the balance there. There for a while I was giving Tennessee extra manganese, but when I got a different load of hay from a different place I had to stop that because it had plenty of that already in it.

[Beaker]

I don’t think Bay is Cushings/IR (yet). I just agree he probably doesn’t need the sugar.

You'd know if Bay had Cushings or was insulin resistant. Oliver has signs of Cushings (a coat that is slow to shed out, and his poop is loose and watery,) but he's fed a suppliment to try to combat that, and we groom the heck out of him rgfd ( (sorry the cat is trying to help) in the summer. I can ask what exactly my trainer does for him in terms of diet, because I don't know. 2sew. (Woah! the cat knows how to spell!) But aside from those symptoms, he's a happy, active horse.