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[ QUOTE ] When my horse had laminitis recently I fed him a mixture of this years poor quality hay and some good barley straw. He dived into the barley straw and refused to eat the hay. I looked up feeding barley straw on the internet and it is considered preferable to poor quality hay. [/...

Will have to try some of these I am doing my first ever test in a few weeks with Axel my 4y/o, and don't like the idea of having to trust someone to call my test, at least then if i stuff up i only have myself to blame.

We don't have the option of oat straw was thinking that good quality barley straw for good doers has got to be better than poor quality dusty hay, but wanted to make sure it wouldn't make them ill

Firstly i am new here so hi to all I was wondering if anyone feeds straw to there horses/ponies? The hay we have this year is not very good quality and stupidly expensive, but we have some lovely dust free spring barley straw. The farmer is suggesting that horses can manage very well on this...