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Re: [RC] "Feeding the Hoof" - Barbara Moulton
WOW I love Ride camp... Joy has been " not herself"
quite a while- moving "different" I had a chiro exam
which helped some but a couple weeks ago I was riding
her and she wasn't lame but moving in a very strange
and new way- I asked Kim to watch her move for me at
the trot and she laughed and said she was waddling in
the back end like a duck. CRUD now what! the ropers
all said it wasn't any big deal just work her through
it, but I worry that if something is different there
must be a reason.
"Too much calcium makes magnesium less available,
resulting in base-wide gait behind, or misdiagnosis of
EPSM, among other things."
The barn ran out of oat hay quite a while back so they
were feeding the alfalfa 2x a day instead of only in
the AM. They just got some in and Hartzell the owner
was just saying on Monday how Joy is gobbling it up
and seems to prefer it now to anything else.
So now ridecamp should I test the forages which I
really don't have much control over anyway or just
test the oat hay, make that her sole hay and provide
some extra protein and balanced mineral suppliment-
or just let it all sort out itself or some better
idea?
Barbara
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