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To: Duchess47

Why can’t Prez have hay? No teeth?

I wish there was a grass hay pellet or cube that horses could eat free choice. I get tired of soaking beet pulp.


4,294 posted on 12/11/2007 4:13:26 PM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: tuffydoodle

Prez has a pouch type thing in his throat, has had for years, vet thinks possibly since birth. Anyway, anything dry but particularly hay sticks there and chokes him.

His feed is beet pulp, alfalfa pellets, equine senior and one other feed (at work and I can’t remember what it is but a pelletted feed of some kind) twice a day. The beet pulp and alfalfa pellets are mixed and have water added after feeding so it is all soaked at the next feeding. The rest is just added at the time of feeding but there is enough moisture to prevent him choking.


4,295 posted on 12/11/2007 4:47:23 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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