Well, I guess most horses don’t really have a problem with the sugars and starch. They just get fat on it. But heck, if you feed just plain oats, thinking that you’re doing good by eliminating the sugar in the molasses, you’re actually doing worse because the carbs are higher. That’s what I did when Tennessee first started having problems with his feet. Then I wondered why he kept gaining weight and didn’t get any better. If I hadn’t found that yahoo group and learned enough to change the way I was feeding him and trimming his feet, he’d probably have had to be put down by now.
BTW, you have mail:)
Becky
An interesting story about the Horse Chow.
When I first read about it and asked the dealer to get it in and why I wanted it he at first refused to get it. Said it was not natural to not give a horse hay. I had to go to several different stores to finally get someone to get it, then I had a terrible time with them not keeping enough for me. After several years of fighting with them to keep enough I called Purina. This was several years after I had originally asked the Bixby store to get it.
Purina told me to go back to the store in Bixby, that he was a good reliable dealer. By this time the other complete feeds had been introduced and was becoming more accepted. The dealer now, was very cooperative about getting it in, and I’ve heard him say numerous times to people now, how great the horse chow is:)
Funny how things change.
Becky