breakfast fed dry??!

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in our barn it is usually, first who is down is first to feed..we left a note up originally stating my horse must have wet food but i get the feeling someone has fed it to her dry this past week, also somebody told my friend this morning that my horse had been given it dry....typically no one knows who that person was who fed her....

will she be okay? i'm really worried, she seems fine but you never know with these things :/
she has a scoop of hifi lite & baileys no5 with biotin & garlic for breakfast
 
You say she seems fine? Well that's your answer, really. If she's happy, pooing normally and otherwise OK I wouldn't worry. Why does she have tio have wet food anyway?
 
She will be fine as she has eaten it with no problem.
Trouble can arise when a horse bolts down dry food and it lodges in their throat and causes choke.

I never feed an hard food dry because it can cause choke and IMNHO anyone who does is ignorant of horse's welfare.
 
I'm sure that if there were any side effects from the dry feed you'd have seen them by now. If someone else is feeding her and not wetting her feed then I think I'd consider adding some speedibeet to her chaff, as that has to be soaked and so will make her feed wet.
 
I used to put a bit of sugar beet in an ice tub (horse didn't have an huge amount, but was on 4 feeds a day) so I used to make them up and put them in a pile by the door next to his feed, who ever was feeding just poured it in to the feed. Worked well, I knew if he had it and only took 2 seconds to do.
 
Foxhunter49 said:
She will be fine as she has eaten it with no problem.
Trouble can arise when a horse bolts down dry food and it lodges in their throat and causes choke.

I never feed an hard food dry because it can cause choke and IMNHO anyone who does is ignorant of horse's welfare.
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Lots, probably the majority, of horses are fed dry food. Some choke, most don't. Doesn't make people ignorant if they choose to feed dry food to horses who don't choke, surely?
 
I was always the first up in the morning so I had to feed the whole yard - there is no way on earth that I would faf around watering down feed. If you want you horse fed wet food then I suggest you either get up first in the morning so it is you doing to morning feeds or you wet your feed in the evening.

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Sorry but I agree with BonneMaman... when you have to feed the whole yard, get your horse out, muck out and get showered and to work on time its hard enough until you get all kinds of demands so and so needs water adding, another one needs medicine adding, the next one needs a hay net up. I think you get my jist.. Once you do it for one you have to do it for all.

I add water to my horses breakfast in the evening and leave it outside his stable, if its going to freeze he either has it dry or if im first down I add water to it myself.
 
think its a bit much to expect people to do anything more put the bucket in really, wet the food ready and cover it in the evening and then you wont have any issues with anyone.x
 
It probably wasn't as rude as you took it, but if you want it done right do it yourself. People work crazy hours, have long drives, ect. You are not unique.

I feed wet. I am in a communal barn. I do not nor do I offer to feed other horses. My horses my responsibility. And vice versa. Because you know what happens? Threads like this in which person who is helping you out gets singled out for not giving appropriate care to Dobbin.

Terri
 
OP I think you need to chill out, BonneMaman wasn't being rude she was just saying how it is on her yard.

Anyway, no1 knows how big your barn is! It could be 5 horses, 20 horses!! and BonneMaman's whole yard could only be 10 compared to your whole yard which could be 50 plus..

People have given their opinions and not critised you in the slightest
 
I never said anyone criticised me ?
People don't need to know how big my barn is :s all I asked was if she would be okay with being fed dry food after usually having it wet, wasnt expecting an argument!

I simply found her post rude.
 
I feed my boys wet feed and TBH I put in the night before - its fine they still eat it and nobody forgets. If Im on feed duty, they get shoved in, I dont make them up or faf around - I dont have time.
 
I don't understand why you don't just wet it the night before if you want her to have wet feed :confused: I totally agree with BonneMaman, I am almost always the first person on my yard and have to feed all the horses - I certainly wouldn't start wetting feeds etc as well, it's hard enough fitting everything in in the morning as it is!
 
Wet your feed in the evening before you leave. I've been on a yard with a "first one up in the morning feeds" system and when that person has lots of horses to feed, the last thing you should be expect them to do is faff around dampening feeds down.
 
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