Re: RC: nutrition in foundered horse

[Farafix@aol.com]

Anita,

Do you know why the friend's horse foundered?  My oldest Arab, Farafix (26 
yrs) started foundering 8-9 yrs ago on the spring grass.  By restricting his 
access to the rich grass, we can prevent re-occurrences.  I was lucky to 
catch it early enough --- he went on to have his best yrs at CTR's when he 
was 19 & 20, and he is still sound & frisky.  However, I don't feed him high 
protein grain --- in the winter he gets 2-3 small coffee cans of 12% grain, 
plus timothy or orchard grass hay, so the total protein content is below 12%. 
 I never had the grass tested, but a lab told me that grass can test as high 
as 21% protein in my area.
A hay only diet can be low in protein (depending on the type of hay), so 
depending on how much of the 14% protein is fed, the total protein content 
may not be too high.

Good luck,
Nancy
Md


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