Fed up - laminitis again!

Brucea - cereal grains are far m ore natural for horses than peas and beans - they would have been found in wild grazing in many places whereas peas and beans would not have been.

Humans are the cause of many of our horses problems, we overfeed and under exercise. We are brainwashed by the feed nutritionists and are nade to feel bad owners if we don't buy every packaged food on the market. Sadly only those that are ancient like myself and LucyPriory will remember the traditional feeds. Yes Lucy there are times when I feel 200 even if I've not quite made it that far.
 
Pasture grass contains fructans which are soluble carbohydrates that directly cause metabolic changes that bring on laminitis in some horses, and especially horses already affected with laminitis. So your horse should not be allowed to graze at all while recovering from an episode.










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Brucea - cereal grains are far m ore natural for horses than peas and beans - they would have been found in wild grazing in many places whereas peas and beans would not have been.
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You are absolutely right Evelyn - except for two important points

Our horses would be getting the wild, natural, high fibre version of the grains - wild oats vs the improved starchy kind

It would also take them quite a long time to trickle feed and get the quantity that goes in with a scoop of typical bagged feed.

Giving them the grain feed all at once in a bucket, without the associated effort of roaming and selecting, and squabbling over the best patches....that's a recipe for problems!!!!

The problem is quantity and quality. Too much of both I'm afraid!

I'm feeding oats - to my big lad - small quantities, sprouted so the starch content is far lower. My big chap sheds off quite quickly in the winter - so he is the only one that is rugged and fed cereal.
 
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