barefoot horse wearing toes down on this ground

_CJ_ said:
one more feed to disguise supplements in and/or slow down the eating of the concentrate feeds: happy hoof. It is palatable, fibre rich and not loaded with molasses.
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Not loaded, but it does have added molasses I believe - that makes it a no go in my book!
 
You are right - it does have molasses (last time I read the label) but not mentioned on the website.

Sadly an LT badge doesn't mean a product is always safe for the sensitive ones.
 
Wow. I never knew all this sugar stuff. My two are barefoot and eat totally 'normally'

Both have lovely hard feet. Am I just completely lucky?

He eats C&C, molichop and bog standard sugarbeet

She eats unmollased hifi and sugarbeet

They both eat lots of haylage too. Should I worry and try and improve or leave as is as both seem fine?
 
jesstickle said:
Wow. I never knew all this sugar stuff. My two are barefoot and eat totally 'normally'

Both have lovely hard feet. Am I just completely lucky?

He eats C&C, molichop and bog standard sugarbeet

She eats unmollased hifi and sugarbeet

They both eat lots of haylage too. Should I worry and try and improve or leave as is as both seem fine?
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C&C = Calm & Condition? That's a molasses free feed anyway and I feed that to my barefooters. You're also feeding unmolassed hifi. Mine get ad lib hay or haylage if they need it. So you are pretty much there anyway and if it's working for you then why change it? But if you do ever encounter problems in the future diet is the first thing to look at. Often horses can tolerate a higher sugar intake when they are younger and still growing but when they get more mature (8 years plus) their metabolisms slow down and they start to have issues.
 
mrdarcy said:
C&C = Calm & Condition? That's a molasses free feed anyway and I feed that to my barefooters. You're also feeding unmolassed hifi. Mine get ad lib hay or haylage if they need it. So you are pretty much there anyway and if it's working for you then why change it? But if you do ever encounter problems in the future diet is the first thing to look at. Often horses can tolerate a higher sugar intake when they are younger and still growing but when they get more mature (8 years plus) their metabolisms slow down and they start to have issues.
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Oh well that's good to know then :) That makes sense as I have a 5yo and a 2yo so will be mindful of them when they grow up. I'd like to swap him off molichop if I can but he has a suspected Alfalfa intolerance so I'm not sure what is out there as an alternative. Most of the unmollased chaffs seem to be alfalfa based. I don't think I can cut out chaff altogether as he bolts his dinner as it is the greedy fat pig. Maybe I'll look out some unmollased sugarbeet though as that seems something I can do without changing anything drastic.

(and yep C&C is calm and condition) :D
 
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