Mince Pie
Well-Known Member
Bumping this back up!Thanks for all your help guys. Unfortunately I have had to be governed by cost as I'm out of work at the moment (hopefully not for long) so I have to be sensible. In the end I went to Your Horse Live and spoke to the Senior Nutrionalist at NAF and bought their haylage balancer which will neutralise and absorb any excess acid - I also got a voucher for money off. From another stall I bought slippery elm to increase the mucous content in the stomach, and a bag of meadowsweet herbal mix to reduce excess acidity, and protect and soothe the digestive tract. After speaking to Dengie I decided to take him off the readigrass he was on and put him onto their Alfa A (which he loves) and to take him of a non heating cereal mix and instead give him Fast Fibre from Allen & Page which they recommended to feed soaked with warm water to encourage his eating (quite a fussy feeder at times).
So far, so good, just doing the gradual change around from the mix to the fast fibre, the readigrass to the Alfa A I was told could be done almost straight away. He loves his new feed, even took the Slippery Elm off my hand which is what I was told by the lady on the stand he would do if he needed it as horses are good at self medicating.
Hopefully I've done all I can (bar winning the lottery) and he will be all set up for his week of box rest starting tomorrow.
Very interested in this post, did you find that the meadowsweet and slippery elm made a difference? How much were you feeding?