Haylage - does it always fizz them up??

[MrsMagoo]

Who else is feeding haylage and does it fizz yours up or not? My mare is at a new yard now and been changed to haylage, so im now a bit worried that she is gonna turn into a nutter - the slightest thing can heat her up

Apparently there haylage is all anyalised and suger free or something???

 

[TGM]

Mine are all fed haylage and have never hotted up on it.

 

[MrsMagoo]

cool

Rode her last night for the first time there and she was a bit hyper to say the least, prob down to the fact theres a hunky stallion in the field and lots of boys to flirt with haha..

 

[samp]

Mine is quite sharp but currently on ad lib hay and 3kg of Baileys Endurance Mix an she is fine, in fact a bit lazy

 

[fairhill]

I wish haylage did fizz mine up. She's been on it since I got her, and is still more interested in sleeping than galloping

 

[flyingfeet]

Sadly not!

I fed ab lib haylage all winter and just ended up with shiney fat horses! Didn't go any faster though.....

 

[MrsMagoo]

Hmmm ok i'll stop worrying about that then - just keep an eye on the change of feed then

 

[kibob]

It can fizz one of mine up when she initially starts getting it at the beginning of the winter, she tends to settle again after a week or so when she has adjusted to it, not sure whether it is the haylage itself or just the fact that getting haylage marks the start of the winter routine for her, ie, yumm ad-lib haylage and bigger teas

 

[Tempi]

Well Bloss gets fed haylage cut by my YOs hubby and dosent heat up. However last year the haylage was crap so i brought my own in, it was that Devon Haylage stuff, and it sent her totally round the bend!

 

[burtie]

It can do but this is because some haylage is made with a richer mix of grasses than normal hay, so it's not the fact it's haylage but the grasses used. I think in theory haylage can maintain a higher nutritional value than equlivilant hay if made correctly so may be more fizzy but I have never noticed this and may be wrong on that fact.

 

[Chex]

Makes no difference to Chex, its usually bog standard stuff, not sure if thats why. He's rarely affected by any foods though.

 

[MrsMagoo]

Well im now on full livery so do you think that if the Haylage really is a problem, would they usually buy hay in??

Not sure how the whole full livery thing works??

 

[Daphnelia]

Depends how sensitive they are I think - my stupid arab hots up, but then give him a polo and he gets a sugar high

Bloody arabs...

 

[so03]

Both mine are on haylage. No problems, just remember it can have the same sort of feed value as hard feed, so cut down the hard feed and you shouldn't have any problems.

I think haylage got this reputation when people fed their horse it and didn't reduce the feed slightly.

Although every horse is different.

 

[MrsMagoo]

Well she slowly putting her on to her feed as well which will be paddock mix and alfa a - all hers are young TB x SJ's and she says it doesnt heat them up. Fingers crossed, she settles down and doesnt become a loony haha

 

[JessPickle]

Ours whole yard is on haylage including all the Tb's none are fizzed up by it.

 

[Twiglet]

Mine fizzes up on haylege and it seems to bring on azoturia-like symptoms.......but then he does fizz up on pretty much everything else as well, so he's not the best yard-stick!

The TB next door is on haylege and it doesn't fizz him up (he's the opposite, think it'd take a bomb to fizz him) but it does give him much more condition.

 

[jodiew]

I have never thought about this before but at may last yard my horse was on haylege and if i didn't ride him for a few days that was it all hell would break loose, but...... i moved last Tuesday and since i have been on my new yard he has had hay, i havn't rode him much just been letting him settle in, but i did ride him on Tuesday night an he was good as gold i couldn't believe it, he even jumped really calmly!!! an he hadn't been rode since saturday!!

It may not be the change from haylege to hay but i cant think of anything else that i have changed!

 

[wench]

My tb x been on haylage all winter, in field and in stable, just as much a lazy horrer is during summer!

 

[0ldmare]

It used to send my mare potty

She was almost unrideable on it! However, not everyone seems to have the problem so it only seems to effect on some horses.

 

[buzzles]

I feed good quality haylage to all mine all winter and have never had any problems with it fizzing them up and some of them can be quite fizzy generally but the haylage has never made them worse. They get hay in the summer and theres no difference in the fizzyness levels than when they were on haylage, but then all horses are different!!! It's much more conditioning than hay so I find they need less hard feed when they're on haylage but you do need to feed more haylage than you would hay.