Eating Staw

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Lucyann89

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My gelding lives in most of the time and is on straw bedding which is great as I was on shaving before and HATED it. The only bad thing with straw is that he eats it, I have tried feeding him more chaff/hay and grazing him more to fill him up but it's not making much difference.

I heard you could spray diluted detol onto the straw..any other ideas?

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Unless there is some reason you dont want him to eat the straw i.e hes overweight then I would leave him to it. My horse will occasionally eat his, especially if I get a poor bale of hay, or an extra nice bale of straw.
 
Thanks.

He's not overweight, he's ideal but is quite hard to keep weight on him! It's more the hassle of having to keep buying new bales of staw as I'm in Uni and need to save haha
 
But when hes eating straw he is not eating hay, and hay is more expensive
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My boy does this and i mix a bit of wet in with his new stuff i put in each night. He doesnt eat it then. I would rather he try and eat a mouthful off wee straw than detol TBH.
 
Years ago my horse ended up with compaction colic coz of eating her bed - althought i will say she did absolutely binge on it - only the wet patches left!!
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You could try really really diluted Jeyes fluid
 
i put my pregnant mare on to straw. next morning there wa shalf a bed missing. tried diluted jeyes and it still did not work. gave up and put her back on shavings.
 
The other option is mixing mustard powder in with water and spraying that on. It won't hurt him, but they don't like the taste. I always worry putting chemicals on incase they find they eat too much
 
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