Feed allergy/Grass nuts

[fairyclare]

I wonder if you guys can help me.
My mare is a headshaker, it is triggered off by grain, cats and humans !!

Thankfully the human and cat allergy is very mild (basically it hardly affect her at all)
The grain allergy however is a big problem, it makes her headshaking really bad, she does also have a problem with the ethmoid but that is managable so long as she doesn't have any grain.
So, the point i'm trying to make is...
Can anyone suggest some grassnuts that i can feed her in her ball, she is a fatty so only has half a scoop of Dodson and Horrell safe and sound twice a day and 1 section of hay (big bale size sections) i just need something to occupy her time as she does love her ball and she doesn't have much feed.
I can't seem to find anything that is just grass, have tried high fibre cubes but the make her headshaking bad.
BTW she is a 16hh Dutch WB, big chunky build and has tonnes of natural energy so certainly doesn't need anymore

Sorry for rambling on, a gold star for all of you who manage to make sense of my rambling

Thanks in advance for you help/suggestions

 

[ljm]

Have you tried simple systems feed??L

 

[fairyclare]

Yeah, i looked at those, sounded promising until i read the bit about 'suitable for tb's and horses in hard work'
Perhps i willl email them in the morning.
She can be quite a handful if she is fed anything that gives energy and whilst i can cope with whatever she throws at me it makes her stressy and difficult to settle, she is in medium work at the moment

 

[clipclop]

Definately email them and tell them all about your horse. They will tell you what will be best for your horse

 

[Happytohack]

I would guess that Jane from Simple Systems Feeds will recommend that you put her on lucerne nuts or lucie bix plus unmolassed sugarbeet. Grass nuts could well act as rocket fuel!

 

[Bosworth]

The red label grass nuts are high energy but the blue label grass nuts are not. Also the Lucinuts are pure lucerne and suitable for fatties

 

[nuffield]

my local Agricultural merchant selld grass nuts. worth asking at oyurs but remember to ring the manufacturer to check ingredients. also make sure the browband is large enough. one of my pony mares wears a full size browband.

 

[Theresa_F]

Try Simple Systems - I now use their diet and my two boys have never looked better and it costs me about £1 a week more than other feeds per horse.

Their bluebag grass nuts are just grass and suitable for horses in moderate work.

 

[lizsamW]

The only problem with grass nuts is that most horses don't like the taste of them!! Neither of my 2 (TB and greedy cob) would eat them!

 

[fairyclare]

Thank you all, will give simple systems a call.
Just to cofirm on the headshaking, she has a deformaty with the right ethmoid and an allergy which just so happens to aggravate her head shaking, all her tack fits correctly.
It could only happen to me and my horse, poor girly

ETS she isn't a greedy horse but does eat most things so hopefully she'll not mind the taste of them