Dengie- healthy hooves choking issue?

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So this afternoon/evening my pony had an episode of choke. Luckily I have seen and dealt with many horses and ponies who have had choke, however it all seems so much scarier when it's your own! After 45 mins of massaging his neck etc the blockage managed to dislodge itself. I have recently changed him onto Dengie-healthy hooves. He is now the 4th pony I have seen choke whilst eating this. I was dubious about putting him onto it in the first place due to the number I'd seen choke, but I'd put it down to one being an oldie with practically no teeth and the others being greedy guts. Has anybody else had the same problem or is this just a massive coincidence? His feed is very wet and sloppy (how he likes it, doesn't like it unless it's practically swimming).


Info: ponies teeth were done 2 months ago,never had an episode of choke before this, fit and well etc
 
I think chop is ideally fed dry, mixed with other feed or just slightly damp, by making it very wet it encourages them to bolt it rather than eat slowly and chew properly, if I have to feed wet feeds I will use something that needs soaking, I don't use HH but do give one of my ponies molasses free Hi Fi which he gets dry and eats very slowly chewing each mouthful.
To me it defeats the purpose by making it very wet, chop is designed to be eaten slowly and encourage chewing, so saliva production and eating time is increased, I would avoid feeding it to anything that may choke although in many years of caring for horses I have only ever seen 3 choke and 2 of those were eating hay not feed.
 
It has little pellets in it in addition to the chaff. If you're soaking it, I'd let it soak for a while so they can disintegrate - if it's runny enough to drink he's possibly swallowing the pellets whole.

I fed it for a couple of years with no problems - I've never heard of it causing problems.
 
It's not wet enough for him to drink. It's just damper than others. I know chaff is designed to encourage chewing and he has never had a problem on any other chaff bar this one so was wondering if other people had experienced this aswell.
 
If he's hardly got any teeth I wouldn't be feeding a short chaff, I would change to a mash. But either way having it swimming, no horse can eat it properly that way so I'm not surprised he choked.
 
If you read my first post it states that the only choking episodes I have seen on the healthy hooves was a pony that was old with barley any teeth (not mine!) And the others were greedy guts and bolted their feed (not mkne)
 
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