can oats cause filled legs?

[Sags_Deer]

a friends horse been getting filled hind legs, she has just started feeding oats can they cause this. thanks.x

 

[vicm2509]

Now you mention it, it has made me think back to last winter.

I fed Baron oats all winter and he had filled legs every morning, the went down after about 2mins of walking though.

I keep him in sometimes in the summer before a comp and his legs do not fill, and he is no longer on oats. Also he was on box rest for a week during the summer and his legs did not fill.

So it is perhaps a possibility.

 

[JessPickle]

I have never found that personally, a few horses at my yard are fed oats and none of them have had filled legs allthough its all about the indivitual horse I suppose

 

[murphyboywoody]

My horse is on oats and he never suffers with filled legs.

 

[Capriole]

ive never had a problem with filled legs due to oats, or rather, my horses havent

 

[seabiscuit]

oats do not cause filled legs

 

[kizzywiz]

Sorry to disagree, but oats (or any high starch/protein feed) can cause filled legs if the horse is not receiving sufficient exercise to use the energy given by the feed. Either ride him more, or feed him less.

 

[Orangehorse]

Only if he is getting lots and lots.