do you wet your horses feed

[Fransurrey]

Same here, fatpiggy. My oldie's feed was HUGE after soaking!

I routinely wet my exmoors' feeds, not so much for this reason, though - they have Mag Ox added, so it's to make it a little less powdery, as they only get a balancer and a sprinkle of nuts. In the winter I soak high fibre nuts to make a soup, which gets added to Hi-Fi lite.

 

[Persephone]

I was taught to, but had 1 elderly mare who refused to eat a wet feed. Other than her, then yes always!

 

[MegaBeast]

Never, the fussy mare won't touch her food even if it's slightly damp. But she's not particularly greedy so doesn't bolt it down

 

[soloequestrian]

Several years ago one of my students did an experiment looking at the speed horses ate food with different amounts of water added. She looked at dry, damp, wet through and 'soup' ie the food floating. It was done a bit more scientifically than that but I can't remember the details of the quantities of food and water. Her results showed that the dampened feed was eaten the fastest which would suggest that if you are worried about choke, you should feed either dry food or food with lots of water added so that it is soup-like - the latter was the one that took the horses the most time to eat.

 

[sydney]

Wet mine- always think I'd hate to have my muesli without milk or a load of dry crackers! Or am I just wierd...