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It's sometimes like a game of musical chairs at lunch except it's 
"musical feed piles."  What "Mikey" has next door always seems better.
Laney
DreamWeaver wrote:
> > Feed them whatever they will eat at a hold.  Getting the gut full is the
> > first priority.  Feeding the "right" thing is secondary.
>
>
> ditto that!  Plus, sometimes it helps if after a few minutes they are 
> just barely nibbling to take them for a walk, even if just over to a 
> water trough and back. That seems to help stimulate them to eat again, 
> and often I find mine will drink when they go to the water and back.
>
> I don't usually bother with beet pulp at the out checks.  Locally it 
> seems I can only find it in pellets anymore, and that takes awhile to 
> soak.  It usually isn't convenient to send it already soaked in a 
> crewbag to an out check, so I just send baggies of dry feed that I can 
> add water to.  I like using complete feeds the best.  The horses all go 
> thru phases where they have a preference for one thing over another.
>
> I usually send the large gallon sized baggies full of feed in my crewbag 
> and most of the time have three types of things for them to choose from 
> in addition to hay.  Usually it's a senior feed, manna-pro complete 10 
> (their favorite all time food) and plain oats.  Another baggie usually 
> has apples and carrots in it.  I just want them to eat, and don't 
> usually care what (within reason).  They almost always want what the 
> horse next to them has!
>
> Karen
> in NV
>
>
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