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Hi there. I have a conni x mare that will just eat and eat and eat on a night in her stable. I am already soaking her hay and double netting. I think if I put 6 nets in a night she would quite happily stand there all night and eat!
Does anyone know any sort of substitute I could use for when she has finished her hay she could nibble on? I don't really like the thought of her standing in her stable with nothing to eat but then again I don't want her to balloon!!

Thank you in advance

Sarah xx
 
hay blocks? they don't last as long as some of the claims but they keep them busy for a while

To make them last longer you can soak them, the resultant gloop half fills a tub trug and takes them an age to eat
 
Mine is the same, it's a complete nightmare!

You could get some oat straw and mix that in with the hay? Bulks it out and fills the horse up without too many calories :). If you can't get 'normal' oat straw then look for oat straw chaff (I use http://www.honeychop.com/chopped-oat-straw.html), mine usually has 3/4 of a trug full of this a night and there's usually about 1/3 of a trug left in the morning.

Introduce it gradually though and make sure she's got plenty of water to drink.
 
Oat straw chaff, if you get the plain version, without molasses or garlic, there will be nothing to tempt her to eat it but it will be available to her if she wants to eat it. I went through at least 2 bags each week, while my mare was on a diet. My mare gets colic if she eats any kind of long straw, so I make sure that she never has straw beds and only has straw chaff to eat. I have given her hay blocks but they don't last long so don't serve the same purpose.
 
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