Advice regarding horse eating "violently"

[Tayto]

Hello, I couldn't really think of a suitable title!

Anyways, my girl is so violent when she eats from her haynet. She pulls at it so hard that I actually wouldn't be surprised if she pulled the partition down! I am worried she hurts her neck doing it!

Anyone else experienced this and any recommendations to overcome it? She is incredibly greedy so I don't really want to feed haylage on the floor as she will gobble it so quickly :-/

 

[cptrayes]

This kind of ravenous hunger can be a symptom of insulin resistance. How fat is she?

 

[Tayto]

She has actually just tested positive for cushings and we are going to test for EMS too just to be on the safe side. She has a bit of a tummy but we are working on getting it off wih upping her work

 

[cptrayes]

She has actually just tested positive for cushings and we are going to test for EMS too just to be on the safe side. She has a bit of a tummy but we are working on getting it off wih upping her work

That's probably the reason then. I managed to get mine back to normal eating by trickle feeding him every two hours for four days, but you have to live with then to do that. The problem is that eating actually makes them hungry.

Hopefully you'll find some treatment that will help.