Anyone's horse go crazy on just one section of haylage???

[KINDMARE]

As title really.
i have had a bit of trouble sourcing local hay so have had to eeek my hay out a bit - i thought i would just feed a 'section' of haylage in with the hay to make it go further but today i tried to school and he went mad!!! bouncing and spooking. could that small amount of haylage make such a difference??

 

[FlyingCircus]

Some do seem to be quite reactive to hayledge!

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Not haylage, ours are fine with that, thank goodness, but I've known horses react badly to less than a teaspoonful of various substances, so I can certainly believe your situation.

 

[Time for Tea]

Yes, but it depends on the haylage. I once bought a bale of Marksway ryegrass haylage for my Irish sports pony. It sent him crazy, spooky, jumpy and fizzy. Just far too rich. But he was fine on various high fibre haylages, and my current ponies, all Foresters, are fine on high fibre haylage.

 

[SEL]

My old yard accidentally fed my pssm mare a net of her neighbour's haylage. I had an hour of bouncy, rodeo nonsense.

 

[Trouper]

Oh yes!!! Poles on the ground were the puissance course according to her.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Half a mugful of alfalfa pellets meant for another horse and it took 48 hours for my normally calm IDx to come down from the ceiling .

 

[Rowreach]

Yes, haylage, alfalfa, any compound feed really because they all have so much unidentified cr4p in them. It usually takes 2 days for normality to resume.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

As title really.
i have had a bit of trouble sourcing local hay so have had to eeek my hay out a bit - i thought i would just feed a 'section' of haylage in with the hay to make it go further but today i tried to school and he went mad!!! bouncing and spooking. could that small amount of haylage make such a difference??

which haylage>?? mine are on timothy and they are laminitics and doe not effect them in that way. I use Devon haylage and Yeomans haulage

I use Devon haylage and yeomans hay

 

[minesadouble]

As others have said already,.all haylage is not equal. First cut Italian Ryegrass will be like rocket fuel whereas later cut Timothy haylage will have much less feed value.