Dengie grass pellets causing hard crest?

[PaulineW]

I’ve recently started feeding my mare a small scoop of these along with her speedibeet and balancer. It’s about a double handful once a day. She gets hay, and there is no grass in her paddock. It’s woodland. She’s on the same hay all year round, grown on the farm.

I noticed today her crest has firmed up. Looking at the Dengie website it just says meadow grass. This is the only thing that has changed lately, so I’m concerned. I’ve worked hard to get her weight down, and her crest soft since her laminitis attack in June.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

 

[meleeka]

I personally wouldn’t feed them to a laminitis risk. They are a lot higher in sugar and starch than soeedibeet.

 

[ycbm]

They are high calorie, I use them all the time but I wouldn't free them to a laminitic. The bag, I think, says they are pure ryegrass.
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[ester]

They are 14% combined sugar starch, with a lami risk that needs to be <10%.

If you want a form of grass pellet you can feed you need to use either meadow magic from emerald green feeds, or hay cobs from agrobs/thunderbrooks/other.
Most grass chaffs are also unsuitable (simple systems timothy/agrobs/thunderbooks ok)

 

[PaulineW]

Thanks all, I’ll stop feeding them to her.

 

[NOISYGIRL2]

I'd just keep her on the speedibeet if that was working, was there a reason you wanted to add to it ?