Haylage

[abbie22]

My horses have all got diarrhea atm I think its probably because of the haylage I am feeding them (I have fed them haylage for months without a problem so I must just have a particularly rich bale) if I mix the haylage with a slice of wheat straw will this stop the diarrhea??
Thanks.

 

[PorkChop]

It will certainly help, although if they are having haylage from the same supplier it shouldn't affect them unless the bale was off I would think.

As well as mixing the haylage I would also have a think about what else maybe causing it - have you had a flush of grass because of the mild weather? I might add some mycosorb/yea-sacc/brewers yeast to their feed to settle their stomach's.

 

[abbie22]

Thank you! So feeding them a bit of wheat straw won't hurt them?

 

[PorkChop]

No, but if you can hold of it oat straw would be better, however my lot would pick out the haylage and leave the straw!

 

[Leo Walker]

Barley would be ok, much better than wheat. Mine gets limited hay and ad lib straw. He picks at the straw once the hay as gone. If there was more hay he'd leave the straw, so just something to be aware of

 

[abbie22]

Is there anything else I could do to stop the diarrhea?

 

[Shay]

Dry bran works. But it would be better to udnerstand why it happened in the first place if you can.

Don't wet the bran - has the opposite effect!