Recent content by pollyathers

Last Winter when the hay situation got really bad we were told by some friends that horses can eat a certain type of straw and not have any effects from it. Does anyone feed their horses this? and if so what kind of straw is it and do you think that it's as good as hay?

Thank you for your help!! getting the vet out this morning as it doesn't look very nice and the pony is feeling very sorry for himself! thank you again. x

This is quite a lengthy story, I apologise haha:) Last night I went down to the field to check on my horses to find that our pony had had quite a nasty incident, although what with we are not sure. On one of his front lets he seemed to have caught it on the fencing and ripped quite a nasty...