Does your horse go nuts with anything with oats in?

[Green Bean]

As the title suggests. I didn't completely put the two together to start with. One of the feeds was Agrobs Grunhafer which is oat hay before the seeds form. My horse goes nuts when she is fed anything with oat grass, oat hay, oat anything - you get the picture. Just wondering if anyone has experienced this. I am not talking about feeding oat cereal itself, just apparent by products.

 

[Elno]

Several horse I've had have had adverse reactions to oats as in oat kernels/ whole oats. Mixes and nuts with oat bran on other hand has been totally fine.

 

[nikkimariet]

No. I’ve fed 3 horses primarily on oats and other plain cereals and it’s made none of them hot.

Exracer was v reactive and was fine
Lazy warm blood remained lazy
Hot warm blood has got no hotter

IMHO the commercial mixes with lots of additives and fillers is what makes some of them ‘hot’ off feed.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Not oat straw which is in honeychop light and healthy but yes, with alfalfa ?

 

[Auslander]

Nope. Alf doesn't get hot on oats/oat byproducts. He is naturally quite sharp, but it doesn't make any difference what I feed him

 

[Auslander]

IMHO the commercial mixes with lots of additives and fillers is what makes some of them ‘hot’ off feed.

On reflection, Alf has been affected by feed once - he went off his rocker completely once when I gave him Calm and Condition!